On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: > I have spent last hour going thru the mailing list archives and still > came out empty-handed: > I have installed a base system froma the current base disks from hamm > which point to the current bo disks. Those include libc5_5.4.33-6 > library. Next step was to try and upgrade to ldso_1.9.6-2.deb. No > problem. Trying to upgrade to libc6_2.0.6-2.deb - with no success: it > conflicts with any libc5 package less or equal to libc5_5.4.33-7. So, I > downloaded libc5_5.4.38-0.1.deb from hamm/oldlibs, but dpkg-deb --info > cmd tells me that this package depends on libc6_2.0.6. > I use dpkg manually, no dselect as I'm more familiar with dpkg...Dpkg is > from the current bo disks for i386 dist. > So, which is the right order of upgrading? > BTW, I downgraded to libc5_5.4.33-3 from Scott Ellis's ftp site in an > attempt to make libc6 not conflicting with it - no success.
You'll need to install both libc5 and libc6 from hamm on the same dpkg command line. This will probably also require removing libc5-dev, as well as any packages which depend on it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .