> I'm not sure what the sequence was but I somehow have managed to get > a version 5.4.23-6 of libc5 installed. Running dselect using the ftp > method from ftp.debian.org and with the distributions as > frozen unstable hamm/contrib hamm/non-free > shows version 5.4.23-4 of libc5 as the available version. I also have > libc5-altdev installed but at version 5.4.23-4. It depends on > libc5-5.4.23-4 so I get a dependency problem whenever I try to select > with dselect. > > Would this inconsistency in versions be a problem? Should I manually > download and install libc5-5.4.23-4.deb?
I'm not sure whether it would be a problem -- it will be if the upstream versions differ, but I doubt whether just different debian revisions cause problems. However, I'd advice you to not install different versions of libc5 and libc5-altdev, just to be sure. Why not download libc5-altdev_5.4.24-6? > As you may surmise from my using libc5-altdev, I also have libc6 and > libc6-dev installed. I am running into a few problems. For example, > I am unable to compile a new kernel with either /usr/bin/gcc or > /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/bin/gcc (details available upon request). > I've got libc6 installed, to, but have no problems compiling kernels (well, 2.0.31-pre2 that is). > dpkg -l | egrep libc # show installed versions of libc-related pkgs $ dpkg -l | egrep libc rc libc 4.6.27-6 The Linux C library. ii libc4 4.6.27-15 The Linux C library version 4 (run-time libr ii libc5 5.4.23-4 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr ii libc5-altdev 5.4.23-4 The Linux C library version 5 (alternative d ii libc5-pic 5.4.23-3 Kit for building specialized versions of the ii libc6 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii libc6-dbg 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (debugging/profi ii libc6-dev 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (development fil ii libc6-doc 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (documentation f -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .