On 5 Mar 2007 13:49:17 -0800 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800 > > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian > > > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD > > > (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed additional > > > packages. > > > > > Everything is working fine and I installed vim 6.3 (current stable > > > version) via aptitude and all works well. Except that I want vim 7. > > > It is available in the testing and unstable repositories, but when I > > > do an "aptitude install vim" it wants to remove my current kernel. > > > > I would guess that this is because it depends on libc6 >= 2.3.6-6, but > > I may be totally wrong. > > > > > I also tried to install vim 7 from source, but when compiling it > > > determined that I didn't have ncurses installed. Again aptitude wants > > > to delete my current running kernel but didn't say anything about > > > installing ncurses. > > > > Did you install libncurses-dev? It contains the development files for > > building ncurses apps. > > > This is what I get when I try to install libncurses-dev > > kold:~# aptitude install libncurses-dev > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > Note: selecting "libncurses5-dev" instead of the > virtual package "libncurses-dev" > The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: > tzdata > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > kernel-image-2.4.27-3-386 [snipped info about packages held back] > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libncurses5-dev tzdata > The following packages will be REMOVED: > kernel-image-2.4.27-3-386 > The following packages will be upgraded: > libc6 libc6-dev libncurses5 locales > 4 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 189 not > upgraded. > Need to get 13.5MB of archives. After unpacking 20.8MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > > Any ideas? libncurses5-dev depends on libncurses5, which depends on libc6 >= 2.3.6-6, which I believe conflicts with 2.4 series kernels. I have a similar issue on a system of mine; I can't upgrade libc6 to a recent version without removing my 2.4 kernel. I think the conflict might have something to do with the initrd-tools package, but I'm not totally sure; I'm not at that system now. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
