I have potato but libc6 (and a couple of other things, I think binutils) from woody. I need lib6c-dev, but want as little else as possible. I tried pointing my sources.list at woody, running apt-get upgrade, and apt-get install libc6-dev. It wants to do a lot of things that I didn't think would be related (see below), like remove gnome. Can i do this in a simpler manner, without so many other changes, or does all this depend on each other? Why do all these other packages depend on libc6-dev? (as opposed to libc6) Or should I try to downgrade my libc6, hoping that I don't have much else from woody that will break?
Thanks in advance for any help. >apt-get install libc6-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: debconf debconf-utils debhelper dialog dpkg-dev esound esound-common freeciv gnome-games-locale html2text imlib-base libart2 libbonobo2 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libcapplet1 libdb3 libdps1 libefs1 libesd0 libfreetype6 libgnorbagtk0 libgpmg1 libgtk1.2-common libncurses5 libperl5.6 libpopt0 libreadline4 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libzvt2 locales mc mc-common perl perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-5.005-suid perl-base perl-modules perl-suid whiptail xfree86-common The following packages will be REMOVED: alien balsa eeyes freeciv-gtk gedit gftp gimp gimp-nonfree gmc gnome-admin gnome-bin gnome-card-games gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-games gnome-gataxx gnome-glines gnome-gnibbles gnome-gnobots2 gnome-gnometris gnome-gnomine gnome-gnotravex gnome-gtali gnome-gturing gnome-gv gnome-help gnome-iagno gnome-mahjongg gnome-media gnome-network gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-pim gnome-print gnome-same-gnome gnome-session gnome-stones gnome-terminal gnome-utils gnome-xbill gnomehack gnomeicu gnosamba gnotepad+ gnotes gnumeric gps gqview gtkglarea4 gtop guitar gxanim libcapplet0 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgtk1.2 libgtkxmhtml1 libobgnome0 libobgtk1 python-gtk rpm ssh-askpass-gnome task-gnome-apps task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-games task-gnome-net task-science xchat-gnome xcontrib xsm The following NEW packages will be installed: debconf-utils html2text libbonobo2 libbz2-1.0 libc6-dev libcapplet1 libdb3 libdps1 libefs1 libfreetype6 libgtk1.2-common libperl5.6 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 perl perl-modules perl-suid The following held packages will be changed: guitar task-gnome-apps 27 packages upgraded, 16 newly installed, 74 to remove and 336 not upgraded. Need to get 21.0MB of archives. After unpacking 26.4MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
