Usually I do that too. However, in this case I get the "no candidate" message:
perrin:/tmp# apt-get install libc6 libc6-dev locales Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package libc6 has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list However the following packages replace it: nscd libdb2 ldso E: Package libc6 has no installation candidate ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 On 11 Oct 2002, Paul Smith wrote: > %% Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > oa> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:09:02PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > >> I fear I've done something very wrong here. I'm trying to stay up to date, > >> so I run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a regular basis. > > >> This time I paid attention; quite a vew packages were held back, so I > >> tried to install them. I found that libc6 was old: > > oa> Installmanual and my "Debian Reference" recommend to use "dselect > oa> for these occasion. Just trust us :-) > > Whenever this happens I just use apt-get install directly: > > $ apt-get install libc6 libc6-dev locales > > Usually it will work on "held back" packages, depending on why it was > held back, and if it doesn't work at least it'll print a bit of info on > why. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools > "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
