Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > 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
Nice, but I found it simpler just to run dselect and mark the libc6 and locale packages with the "hold" flag after manually downgrading to 2.2.4-1. Craig
