I recently installed potato on a ppc, and I also went through the frustrating and confusing dselect problems with the man-db package. I did not have a problem with dselect wanting to install the mentioned libc6-bin package, although it tried really hard to get me to install jgroff.
(dselect had a very confusing set of screens it runs through when it thinks you have dependency problems, and I have found it has had trouble detecting package status properly: it listed "man-db" as "installed" and refused to download it from the server, even though the files were nowhere to be found on my hard drive.) My solution was to download the man-db package myself and install it with dpkg: you can get it to ignore dependency issues by using the force option: dpkg -i --force depends man-db.[...].deb This properly installed and configured the man-db package on my system. I have (so far) not found any incompatibilities with groff-1.15-1, and have finally been able to read man pages. Maybe fastest solution to get dselect to install man-db properly would be to relax it's requirments to 1.15-1 in the dependency tree? Unless there are comptability problems I haven't seen yet... is 1.15-1 to 1.15-2 a major revision? Cheers, Gary Steele On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > Hi, > > the current man-db depends on groff (> 1.15-2) the current version of > groff on powerpc is still 1.15-1 however (its up to 1.15-3 on i386) > this prevents man-db update/installation on powerpc right now. > > furthermore, dselect is pulling another `libc6-bin' it would appear, > try running dselect and the last dependency screen it thinks it would > be a good idea to remove man-db and groff and everything that depends > on either (a very formidable set of packages)... > > since dselect is somewhat broken in this regard perhaps it would be > prudent to get the updated groff into the powerpc tree soon? > > -- > Ethan Benson > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
