On 11-May-99 add|ct|on wrote: > > tis true, it seems to be a huge issue though i can't see why. what i don't > get is why, if someone insists on using packages made for an entirely > different system (potato packages on slink, for instance), they would > complain that things break?
I will give a specific instance. I need gtk 1.2 but when I try to install the libgtk 1.2 deb, it complains that it needs libc6 2.1.1. I was unable to install this gtk from source because during 'make install' it complains that the deb is already installed. I tried removing the deb for gtk, but then dpkg complains that it is required for other packages I installed. In order to install libc6 2.11 I need to also upgrade to the potato version of ld.so and some other things. I tried this and it broke my timezones. I was fortunate to have been able to go back to the older libc6 with only small breakages which I fixed. I just have to wait until Potato is stable, and if it will run on 2.0.x kernels, I will upgrade, or else, learn to set up ipchains and upgrade the kernel too. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
