> In attempting to install on my PowerMac 6500, I've noticed that a lot of > packages depend on libc6 >= 2.1 but the only available version is 2.0.x. > In fact a quick scan of the unstable tree shows 2.1.x only available for > the i386 arch. > > The question is: How can I get apt-get to ignore the dependencies and > install anyway? Alternatively, can someone determine if the >= 2.1 > dependency is valid and change? or update libc6?
Get it for the moment from http://powerpc.debian.org/~koptein (glibc*, xfree*) If all goes very well, we have in the next days glibc-2.1 and egcs on all mirrors for powerpc. And some days, weeks later we have also xfree available. MfG, Hartmut