To all you new users o the list out there in cyberspace whose minds must have been totally blown by that last problem with the glibc, I have good news. The problem is fixed.
Here is how you can do it. If you have just done an apt-get update in the last while and have installed no more packages, you should be fine. However, if you have installed other packages after doing an update, you might have seen an error about there being a conflicts/predepends loop on a package called e2fsprogs. Please follow the below instructions carefully if this has happened to you and you should be fine. When this problem first occurs on the installation of a package, use this command line to install the desired package and fix part of the problem at once. apt-get install package-name -o apt::force-loopbreak=1 This will tell apt to temporarily remove the offending package, which should never have to be done, but it is up to the debian people to worry about that one, I don't have time to poke around inside pre-compiled binary packages to find something someone should have found before the package ever left the lab. Now, when you finish that and the dealing with the question from apt-get asto whether to interrupt the upgrade at this time, you need to answer this question to indicate that you want to upgrade the package now. The e2fsprogs package will temporarily be removed, the new package installed and the old package put back with a message telling you that some programs need to be stopped and restarted manually. Don't worry about the little bit of geekish, technical information that apt offers, get back to the root prompt and reboot the system. Problem fixed. From that point on, you should be able to do your favorite installs with no more trouble than finding the packages. Hope this helps, and if you have anymore questions, feel free to contact me. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST! _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
