1st of all I am not subscribed to this list cause the subscription overwhelms me with it's huge number of postings. So if you reply be sure to reply to me directly<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and also to the list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>. I like using the monthly archive better than subscription. ------ I have been trying to install Debian 1.3 from the ftp.debian.org site. I get an error when dselect tries to install libc5-dev. It depends on the previous installation of libc5 version 5.4.20-1 but version 5.4.23-3 is what was installed. Apparently the version test for the installation of libc5-dev has the = sign instead of >= sign for checking the version of libc5. So the installation is rejected.
So I got around this by editing the /var/lib/dpkg/status file. I went to the point in the file where the libc5 version was recorded. I edited the version number to 5.4.20-1. It worked! OK, it worked so far cause I haven't seen a problem with it yet. Had to do the same thing to get libreadline2-dev to install. OK experts, did I do good or at the very least, good enough? Was there an easier or better way? Are problems going to crop up in the future because of my hack? Could I have gotten around this problem by using dpkg commands directly instead of dselect? Was there a way in dselect to force the installation anyway? -joew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .