On 10-Aug-97 Brandon Mitchell wrote:
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| Upgrade Notices: How to Safely Go to libc6.
Some people have reported unusuable systems after trying to upgrade to
libc6. In order to safely upgrade, the following was suggested by:
> From: "Scott K. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> 1) Use dselect to purge all of the -dev packages on your system, they
> will all need to be replaced with libc6 based packages, most likely
> included in hamm. Getting rid of the bo -dev packages will solve a
> majority of your dependancy problems.
> 2) Manually retrieve and install the latest libc6 package. This will
> save a lot of headaches in trying to install all the new libc6 based
> stuff.
> 3) Manually retrive the latest bash, libreadline2, and libreadlineg2
> packages. Install all of them on one dpkg command line.
This list of packages is incomplete when upgrading from 1.3.1. You also need
ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-3.deb and ldso_1.9.5-1.deb
And the order of install that worked for me is:
libc6_2.0.4-1.deb
ldso_1.9.5-1.deb
libreadline2_2.1-2.1.deb
ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-3.deb
libreadlineg2_2.1-2.1-2.deb
bash_2.01-0.1.deb
cheers,
David
p.s. The Debian Newsletter is great idea!
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> Most of the rest of the packages should upgrade with no problem. You
> may want to install altgcc and the various -altdev packages if you wish
> to continue to compile libc5 based programs. Library packages with g at
> the end of their names are the libc6 linked libraries, if libraries are
> linked with a different version of libc than the program they're linked
> to, strange problems may develop.
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| Upgrade Notices: Netscape 4.02b7 Problems
The latest sources for communicator may be hard to find on netscapes ftp
sites: (this author had luck with ftp6, but it may change)
ftp://ftp?.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix/
To install, extract the tar-gzip file, read the readme, and run the
ns-install script (you will be prompted for the target directory). Users
will have to set the variable MOZILLA_HOME to the target directory. The
only problem so far is that helper apps (like realaudio) will fail because
of a bug in bash. The solution is to upgrade to bash 2.01 from unstable.
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