On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 10:29:38AM -0500, Brian K Servis wrote: > Does anybody know were to find a netscape4_4.0-6.deb that does not depend > on libc6, so that I can use it on a 1.3.1 system? Why does it need to > depend on libc6 anyway?
It looks like the installer package was built using "fakeroot", which causes a spurious libc6 dependency for a libc5 package if the maintainer is unweary. > I could modify the control file but I don't know how to put the pieces > back together once I have extracted them using ar and tar. Any simple > step on doing this would be helpful as well, without pointing me to the > package maintainers documents. As the dependency is wrong (there is nothing actually depending on libc6 in the netscape installer package), you can safely tell dpkg to ignore it; something like dpkg --ignore-depends=libc6 -i netscape*deb ought to do the trick. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
