[solved]: A problem about packages dependencies

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:41:15 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> When I try to install the package msynctool_0.22-2_i386.deb with `dpkg -i
>> msynctool_0.22-2_i386.deb', Debian Etch complains that the version of libc6
>> is
>> too low for that package.  But, when I installed that package (in another
>> partition of my PC) with `apt-get install msynctool' and the following lines
>> in /etc/apt/sources.list:
>> 
>>  deb http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/repo/opensync-0.21/ etch main
>>  deb-src http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/repo/opensync-0.21/ etch main
>> 
>> , no complain was made although libc6 was the same old version.  Now, my
>> question is:
>> 
>>  1) why did Debian complain that time and not that other time?
>>
>>  2) how can I install that package with no complain, via `dpkg -i' or any
>>     other way that allows me not to edit sources.list?



Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> writes:

> This repository seems to have a backported version of the msynctool
> package. Your msynctool_0.22-2_i386.deb file, on the other hand, is
> obviously not backported for Etch. You can run
>
> dpkg-deb -I msynctool_0.22-2_i386.deb | grep Depends
>
> to see for yourself. (The same version of msynctool can be compiled for
> different version of libc6; you cannot tell the difference from the
> version string in the name of the .deb file.)



I see: what I thought was the same package were on the contrary two different
packages!


> Take the backported package from the working system and install it on
> the other one. You may be able to find the .deb in
> /var/cache/apt/archives, or you can download it with
>
> aptitude download msynctool


Thanks, the problem seems to be solved now!  Thanks also to Douglas for his
reply.

Cheers
Rodolfo