The Debian libc6 HOWTO list a known fix for this.. you need to get an older version of the libc5 library that will not conflict with the libc6 you are trying to install.
Johan Harvyl wrote: > As far as I can see there are only one set of base disks; the bo dist base > disks. > After having installed them, dselect starts and if you try install, the > first file it tries is libc6, which can't be installed since it conflicts > with the libc5 that comes with the bo distribution. It can be installed > manually by typing dpkg -i libc5xxxx.deb libc6xxx.deb but other packages > has the same problem, libreadlineg for example seems to screw up my system > when I try this causing segmentation faults to almost every program run. > > What is the correct procedure for installing the hamm ditribution from > scratch? > > regards, > > Johan Harvyl > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://k2.lund.se/~johan > > -- > 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] .