Hello! You have to *upgrade* xlib6 before installing xlib6g (which conflicts only to older versions of xlib6. I hope you know that you are going to use the hamm system, which is somewhat unstable (because of the change from libc5 to libc6. xlib6 is libc5, and xlib6g is libc6, and they are not kompatible. PLease be shure to read the From xlib5 to xlib6 mini HOWTO from Scott (?) Ellis (??) here on the list (check the archive or mail me, and I will send you one).
Marcus On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > Hi. > > I'm trying to install the new version of Scotty because I want tkined but > it requires tk8.0 which depends on one of the new 'g' packages which seem > to be appearing in unstable... in this case xlib6g. > > Now I just tried to install these new xlib6g packages and hosed my system > because xlib6g conflicts with xlib6 and I couldn't remove xlib6 because > lots and lots depended on it (so stupidly I tried to do a --force on > xlib6g and then remove xlib6 which was not a happy thing because lots of > things depended on elf-x11r6lib which xlib6 provided but xlib6g doesn't). > > In short... does anyone have a copy of tk8.0 before the xlib6g dependency > that they could mail me? > > The slightly longer question is: 'What's the story with the new 'g' > packages and how do I safely swap over. > > Thanks, > > Adam. > > PS. I've been off the list for a couple weeks as I moved... sorry if this > has been discussed... could replies be CC'd to me as I have only just > resubbed. > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
