* 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

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