On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > You need to be more clear on your system configuration (distribution, > preferences, ...) but let bme try help you.
Sorry. It's a woody machine, upgraded when woody was testing. Nothing all that special about it; it's got a custom-compiled kernel 2.4.18. > > ... > $ apt-cache policy libc6 > libc6: > Installed: 2.2.5-14.3 > Candidate: 2.2.5-14.3 > Version Table: > 2.2.5-15 0 > 70 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages > *** 2.2.5-14.3 0 > 800 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 2.2.5-11.2 0 > 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages > 2.2.5-6 0 > 500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages > Mine says: perrin:/tmp# apt-cache policy libc6 libc6: Installed: 2.2.4-5 Candidate: (none) Package Pin: (not found) Version Table: 2.2.5-11.2 1001 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages 2.2.5-6 1001 500 http://distro.ibiblio.org stable/main Packages 500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages *** 2.2.4-5 1001 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > You are upgrading from potato to woody. "apt-get dist-upgrade" was what > is needed but this is known not to be the best way (despite some others > posted). Actually I'm not (or at least not currently trying to). The machine was upgraded using apt-get dist-upgrade back in December, 2001. > > Installmanual and my "Debian Reference" recommend to use "dselect for > these occasion. Just trust us :-) > > # dselect update > # dselect select > ... play with selection > # dselect install Something is clearly messed up on this machine. When I do this: - libc6 shows only the 2.2.4-5 available: *** Req base libc6 2.2.4-5 2.2.4-5 GNU C - I can't exit select without encountering a host of unresolved dependencies; I end up having to use Q to get out. - dselect install then gives: perrin:/tmp# dselect install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: abiword abiword-common abiword-gtk ascd asmixer bibview cdrtoaster communicator communicator-base-477 communicator-smotif-477 diploma dpsclient dvi2ps-fontdata-bsr dvidvi fortify fortify-linux-x86 fvwm2 fvwmconf gs-aladdin-manual gv html2ps jadetex jdk1.1 kivio koffice koshell labelnation lib-fop-java lib-xt-java libltdl0-dev libmagick4g-lzw libplot libwmf0 memprof mrproject mswordview netscape-base-4 netscape-base-477 netscape-java-477 octave-plplot oleo perlmagick plotutils plplot plplot-doc plplot-tcl python-ldap task-tcltk tdtd tk8.0 tk8.2 winesetuptk xlib6 xmix xproxy xspread xtranslate The following NEW packages will be installed: esound-clients fam fvwm-icons gimpprint-locales gnupg-doc imlib-progs ipmasqadm iptables jpilot-plugins kernel-image-2.4.18-686 kghostview libhtml-format-perl libltdl3-dev libnet-ph-perl libnet-snpp-perl libnss-db libstdc++3 mtr-tiny python-egenix-mxdatetime python-newt python2.1-egenix-mxdatetime python2.1-egenix-mxtools texi2html util-linux-locales vacation x-ttcidfont-conf 0 packages upgraded, 26 newly installed, 57 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 11.9MB of archives. After unpacking 44.7MB will be freed. Since I definitely *don't* want to remove all those packages, I abort at that point. Clearly I have done something wrong here. Is there an easy way to "clean up"? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
