On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:54:05PM -0800, Tom Persons wrote: > I recently downloaded the latest Debian dist (hamm I believe) from the > debian.org website. I did this after realizing that the dist that came on a > cd I have is about a year or so old. I wanted the latest stable > kernel/apps/etc..... I'm new to Linux but was able to install my original > dist with little trouble and was able to download the proper X server and get > twm up and running. Then I decided to download fvwm95 and window maker to > have a more elegant front end to X. In addition I found that I needed the > latest ppp package as well. After many painful attempts I could not get these > packages to install so this lead me to finding the entire dist. Well, none of > the packages will install because they apparently depend on libc6, but this > conflicts with libc5 which some of the other apps depend on. In fact, dpkg > wouldnt even let me remove libc5 because of this. Is it OK to remove libc5? > I'm assuming I have the latest versions of the apps that need libc5 in the > new dist and that they depend on libc6. Is this the case? > > Tom Persons
I am guessing that you have debian 1.3 (bo), already installed. To upgrade from bo to hamm ( the latest stable release), a special procedure is needed because of the switch from libc5 to libc6. You cannot just install libc6 - that will break all of your other packages. There is a script for doing this upgrade available (autoup.sh) and instructions should be available on the website ( which I can't get to right now) and on the ftp site ( in the directory /pub/mirrors/linux/debian/hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386 on my local mirror). Good luck and if you have other questions, feel free to ask. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -1335 |
