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Re: Non-dpkg owned libc6 etch-lenny upgrade



On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:01:30PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about 
> having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686.  "Can't live with it, can't 
> live without it".  Can't remove it. Can't upgrade with what I have.  

What error do you get?

Non-dpkg (not from a deb) or non-apt (a local package)?

> Previously I've done all installs and upgrades with apt-get.  I started 
> this system with sarge, and successfully upgraded to etch a couple of 
> years ago and have kept etch upgraded.  I've tried apt-get -f 
> dist-upgrade and aptitude dist-upgrade with same results.

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