On Mar 30, Nick Cabatoff wrote: > This is with slink's dpkg. For reasons I don't understand, some > packages don't get set by --set-selections and no explanation is > given. Currently I've only noticed this with libpng2-dev, librx1g-dev > and zlib1g-dev.
I seem to have resolved this, but see below for a further question. > I've had similar problems when missing dependancies were at issue, but > that doesn't seem to be the case here: > > flanders:/usr/local# apt-get install -d libpng2-dev > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > zlib1g-dev > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libpng2-dev zlib1g-dev > 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not > upgraded. > 2 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/264kB of archives. After unpacking 829kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] It turns out it *was* the case - once I made libc6-dev installable, everything fell into place. But then why wasn't apt-get trying to install libc6-dev?
