Re: Problem with upgrading libc6
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:32:38PM -0700, NFN Smith wrote:
> I have a server that is running etch, and before upgrading to lenny,
> there's a a couple of packages with a lot of local configuration work in
> them that I want to upgrade individually to lenny versions first, so
> that I don't have the problem of having to adjust for lenny-specific
> changes to packages at the same time I'm upgrading the server. This
> server is running AMD-64 versions of Debian.
>
> For these packages, updates are requiring upgrade of libc6, that's
> giving me problems in version conflicts between libc6 and libc6-dev.
> libc6 upgrades, but for some reason libc6 dev doesn't.
>
>
> Highlights from screen logs, when I run:
>
> aptitude -t stable install libc6
Think of libc as the heart of your computer's software. You just
instructed your computer to do a hart transplant without the patient
going on bypass.
OK, its the best analogy I could come up with. I don't know if fixing
this is possible, hopefully someone can help you. I hope you had good
backups (if not, do them now if you can).
Doug.
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