Hey, it's 'the man' hisself! :) I guess I'm a little shy about using 'force' now because that's what broke my system and a couple of people told me to never do that (including Ben G.). The last time I did a force on libc6, it seems to me that the packages looking for libc6 still couldn't find it.
matty Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Way f-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: > Someone messed up with the libc5 in the latest stable. It conflicts with > libc6 for no reason, if you install libc6 with --force-conflicts it should > work fine. You could also install the latest libc5 from unstable instead > (better alternative if you intend to upgrade completely to unstable), but > that is likely to force you down the altgcc/libc5-altdev path if you want > to be able to compile libc5 stuff. > > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: > > > hello, all, > > > > OK, I'm reading the libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO from www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ. > > It says, "Install these packages in exactly the order listed. ...any > > later versions should also be acceptable." > > > > So, I installed ldso_1.9.5-1 using dpkg without incident. The next > > package listed is libc6_2.0.4-1. Well, of course, that's no longer the > > version that's available. It's now libc6_2.0.5c-0.1. So I downloaded > > that and ran: dpkg -i . I received back an error saying it was > > conflicting with libc5! > > > > BTW, I'm running on a fresh 1.3.1 install. I just re-installed last night > > because I broke my system by removing libc5 so I could install libc6 > > *bigblush*. Oh, well, I learn as I go...:) > > > > What am I doing wrong here? > > -- > Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
