> > > > Your libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt saves many people from ruinning their > > operating systems. A few changes could save a few more people. When a > > person > > ruins zher operating system by badly adding packages from hamm, zhe > > consumes > > weeks of time. You might save tens of people a hundred wasted hours each. > > Didn't save me. I followd the instructions on an old test system here and > STILL managed to blow it up. I was tired and cranky ... got to the part where > I > manuall did a dpkg on libc6 ... but it conflicts with libc5 ... (dpkg -i > libc6_2.0.4-1.i386.deb) so without thinking I did a dpkg -r --force depends > libc5 thinking that my next command would be to install libc6 ... there was no > next command on that system.
the libc5 from hamm doesn't conflict with libc6. So, you should have installed the libc5 from hamm, before installing libc6. I'm sure that is mentioned in the libc5-libc6-mini-howto. > -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. `head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter words (once every approx 4e8 tries). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
