Raj Manandhar wrote: > > Is there any way of trying out the libc2.1 package from potato without > upgrading everything to potato? I tried a simple dpkg -i on the .deb, > but one needs apt>0.3, and that apt requires libc2.1.
on 06/03/99 i downloaded apt_0.3.6.1_i386.deb for slink. the url(?) was in a message from a(?) debian-list. you should be able to find the url in the list-archive. > I'm kind of leery of upgrading everything to unstable, but I figure if > I just try libc, I can downgrade if it is too unstable for me. It -i- will not allow libc2.1 on my slink. > seems like a lot of new stuff (Netscape 4.6 for example) requires > libc2.1. not, if you download the tarball from netscape and use the debian-installer for netscape. or you can go to http://ftp.netgod.net/x/ with many other ´slinkish´ debs. hafi
