On 02/17/2009 08:57 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
Hi,
This should guide you:
$ apt-cache show libc6-i686
Well, so far it says:
This set of libraries is optimized for i686 machines, and will only be
used if you are running a 2.6 kernel on an i686 class CPU
However uname -m says I am running a 2.4 kernel on an i586:
Linux mesrv 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i586 GNU/Linux
Wow. Even your 2.4 kernel is old!!
(2.4.37 was released 2008-12-02 08:13 UTC.)
So why does apt want to install it at all?
Die folgenden zus�tzlichen Pakete werden installiert: // The following
additional packages will be installed:
libc6 libedit2 libkeyutils1 libkrb53 libncurses5 libssl0.9.8 locales
openssh-client
Vorgeschlagene Pakete:
//Recommended packages:
glibc-doc libc6-i686 krb5-doc krb5-user ssh-askpass libpam-ssh keychai
Or does recommended mean they won't be installed and libc6 will be
chosen instead?
Apt isn't so sophisticated as to be able to know what hardware that
you're running.
So, figuring that *most* people run 686-or-greater h/w, it
*recommends* libc6-i686. But, knowing that *some* people still have
lesser h/w, it's *only* a Recommends, not a Depends.
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