Hello all -- I have a dual processor Pentium II system, and I recently decided to switch to the new version of SMP (the old version had been giving me problems). That meant moving to the new kernel.
To use the new kernel within the framework of the stable distribution, I had to upgrade certain specific packages to the unstable, primarily netbase and sysutils. Netbase and sysutils depended on libc6 and libncurses4, and libc6 depended on apt. We also included libc6-dev, because we didn't think that we could compile the kernel without it. Finally, we got the kernel source for 2.2.1 in order to be able to compile the kernel. That all went okay. The problem is that I want to be able to use g77. g77 depends on g++, which depends on libstdc++2.9-dev. Specifically, if I try to add g77 in dselect, the dependency list includes libstdc++2.9-dev, and the specific dependency list for it reads as follows: g++ depends on libstdc++2.9-dev (>= 2.91.60) libstdc++2.9-dev suggests stl-manual libc6-dev conflicts with libstdc++2.9-dev libstdc++2.9-dev depends on libc6-dev which indicates that libstdc++2.9-dev both conflicts with and depends on libc6-dev -- I have no clue how to solve that. Does anyone have any words of wisdom to offer on the subject? Maria Rightley