I'm using Debian 2.0 which comes with libc6_2.0.7t-1. I also had to install libc6-dev_2.0.7t-1 and libc6-pic_2.0.7t-1. Later I needed the 2.0.7u version (for some packages which I can't remember - WindowMaker was probably one of them) so I downloaded libc6_2.0.7u-4 (just that one) from the Debian archive, and it installed ok. Of course my installed packages didn't look quite right:
ii libc6 2.0.7u-4 ii libc6-dev 2.0.7t-1 ii libc6-pic 2.0.7t-1 but everything worked fine. Now the problems: 1) A few days later, when I got back to get the other packages ( -dev and -pic) they were gone from the Debian archive! The only libc6 stuff to be found there were the 2.0.7t version and a new 2.0.7.19981211 version. 2) I tried to use apt to upgrade my system (if I was to upgrade such a fundamental piece why not the rest as well?). This is the output of apt-get: meneltarma:~# apt-get -s upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends:libc6 and then: meneltarma:~# apt-get -f install Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error Correcting dependencies...ok The following packages will be REMOVED: popt newt0.21-dev libg++272-dev xpm4g-dev slang0.99.38-dev slang0.99.38-pic xlib6g-dev ncurses3.4-dev tk8.0-dev tcl8.0-dev boot-floppies libc6-dev libc6-pic 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 13 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0b of archives. After unpacking 26.6M will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n I must say that does seem a little drastic. Should I use dpkg to force the downgrade of libc6 from the t version to the u version and then rerun apt-get upgrade? Will it break the packages that depend on libc6_2.0.7u only temporarily? Or are there other options? TIA Carlos
