On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Sven Hartge wrote: > Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> For all the good it will do. Google isn't going to change it. If > >>> they were, they would have done so already. Solution? Downgrade > >>> or install GLIBC from Testing to run side-by-side with Wheezy's > >>> 2.13. > > >> Installing glibc from testing will not work the way you think it > >> will. It will however have great potential to wreck your Wheezy > >> installation. > > > Some reading I've done says it's possible and won't wreck the > > system. Although, I intend to test in a VM first. > > You cannot install it in a way t run it side by side. By installing > the libc6 package from Jessie it will overwrite the one from Wheezy. > This is how the package manager works.
There is a way to safely run a "mixed" system. The Apt docs mention how to do it. At this point, I don't know fully what's involved to do so. I found instructions from one person who didn't "install" the GLIBC, but got the binary files in tar format, copied the library to a folder in his home directory, and used a symbolic link to it, so the app that needed it could find it. Said it worked. And he's had no problems. > This late in the release cycle, upgrading the libc6 package will pull > many more packages from Jessie into your Wheezy installation, > transforming it into a mix of Wheezy and Jessie with a greater > possibility of having strange bugs. My intention as others who've only needed GLIBC 2.14 (or greater) in Wheezy is to install/copy/whatever only that library nothing else. > >> As said in Comment 36 to issue 410805, Adobe is working an solving > >> the problem. We have to just wait. > > > Adobe? I thought they'd abandoned Linux. > > Yes, but the Issue clearly states that Adobe does the Linux-Build of > libpepflashplayer.so and Comment 36 is made by an Adobe employee. Never completely read that advisory. Probably by the time I'm ready to put >=2.14 on my system, the problem will have been rectified. ;-) Thanks for your insight. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140921103709.244b1...@debian7.boseck208.net
