On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, George Bonser wrote: > Grab the howto on upgrading to libc6 and pay PARTICULAR attention to the very > last item on the document. You will DOWNGRADE libc5 to a version that does > not > conflict, load libc6, get rid of your current *-dev packages, install the > libc6-dev and get the libc5-dev and other -dev's from unstable that have a > slightly different name that I can not remember right now.
Actually, you'll UPGRADE libc5 to a version that places some files in other places to be able to coexist with libc6. This version depends on libc6, so read the mini-HOWTO for details on this. The libc6 *-dev packages are mostly named *g-dev, like the library packages that have been renamed from lib* to lib*g. The libc5 *-dev packages have been renamed to *-altdev. If you upgrade to a libc6 system you will have to upgrade many packages like locales, *-dev, gcc and many other things. But, if you just follow the libc5-libc6-mini-howto you'll get there without any serious trouble. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
