* Jeremiah Mahler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010929 02:54]: > Fellow Debian users, > > This is by far the best way I have found of dealing with the > troublesome libc6 2.2.4-2 package. Simply edit the file named > '/etc/apt/preferences' and add lines like mine shown below. Now > everything should update easily and you can run galeon and mozilla > again. Also, see man apt_preferences(5) for more info. > > file:/etc/apt/preferences > Package: libc6 > Pin: version 2.2.4-1 > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > Package: libc6-dev > Pin: version 2.2.4-1 > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > Package: locales > Pin: version 2.2.4-1 > Pin-Priority: 1001
Running 'echo libc6 hold | dpkg --set-selections', as suggested by Colin, wouldn't be necessary then, right ?? That leads me to my second question regarding the 'echo' command. How do you undo it ?? Hall