Thanks for your reply. Yes, you're right, I was accidentally mixing hamm and slink because the mirror site I was using still has slink as frozen and hamm as current. I used slink base disks and then selected "current" not realizing this was taking me to the hamm packages and so I was getting version conflicts.
Chris On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Chris Gray wrote: > > > I've been having a problem installing Debian standard packages. > > > > The version of libc6 installed from the base diskettes was 2.0.7v-1 but > > the version of libc6-dev listed as available from the ftp site is 2.0.7t-1 > > This is strange. > > In slink, libc6 and libc6-dev have version 2.0.7.19981211-6. > In hamm, version was 2.0.7t-1, if I remember well. > > If you have 2.0.7v-1, you probably installed slink when it was still in > the frozen stage. > > In this case the best thing to do would be to upgrade everything to > slink, which is now stable. > > Thanks. > >