"Kevin M. Bealer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> Also, installing this packages causes dselect to get really excited
> about dependencies, since everything wants the old libreadline, and
> the new one doesn't want to coexist. What is the solution to this
> sort of thing? For now, I have left the new one installed,
> deselected it, and stopped upgrading for a bit, but "bc" doesn't
> run yet.
Get the new, old libreadline2 from the same place as libreadlineg2:
C-u M-! dpkg -l 'libreadline*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
un libreadline <none> (no description available)
un libreadline-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libreadline2 2.1-2.1 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
pn libreadline2-de <none> (no description available)
ii libreadlineg2 2.1-2.1 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
ii libreadlineg2-d 2.1-2.1 GNU readline and history libraries, developm
> (so I use python to do arithmetic.)
:-) I'd be using Perl, or maybe the XEmacs *scratch* buffer. One of
these days I'll work out how to use metafont for this.
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