Rick Pasotto wrote: > I'm basically keeping up2date with testing. 'apt-get upgrade' wants > to upgrade libc6 but the upgrade wants to first stop gdm. I did an > 'apt-get install' of only a few programs but evidently one or more > of them depended on the new libc6. > > Two questions: > > 1) Will stopping gdm kill my X session that I'm running apt-get in?
Yes. Stopping gdm (or kdm or xdm) will kill your current X session. And presumably your current apt-get install process too. You can restart it from the text console. I usually use CNTRL-ALT-F1 for that. > 2) How do I tell apt-get that I *don't* want to upgrade libc6 just now? > It insists on doing so and I can't install anything else in the mean > time. I assume that you control-C'd to break out of the installation but now see that doing anything else tries to continue the previous operation? That should be fine. In that case there are a few options depending upon many things. * apt-get remove the packages that want to upgrade. Now that they are no longer depending upon the new libc6 apt should no longer want to upgrade it. * Downgrade the packages to previous versions so that they no longer depend upon a newer libc6. 'apt-get install packagename=version' Bob
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