On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 01:31:42AM -0400, Paul Nesbit wrote: > I can't get beyond the following dependency problems list: > dselect just keeps suggesting the same. > > E I OM Pri Section Package > * * * Req Base libc6 > * * * Req Base perl-base > * * Imp Interpre perl > * * Std devel libc6-dev > > I've tried continuing anyways but I get this message: > "Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this > means they have unmet dependencies > libc6-dev: depends libc6 (as you can see above, it IS installed!) > perl: depends: perl-base (IS installed!)" > > I'm using slink, on a i386 with 32 MB ram.
Maybe versions of libc6 and libc6-dev are conficting. Go to dselect conflict window and press capital V twice. You see similiar to example attached below. mirek ========================================================================== dselect - recursive package listing mark:+/=/- verbose:v help:?EIOM Pri Section Package Inst.ver Avail.ver Description **_ Req base e2fsprogs 1.15-1 1.15-1 The EXT2 file system utilities and **- Opt admin quota 1.65-2.5 1.65-2.5 An implementation of the diskquota **- Opt utils mc 4.5.37-2 4.5.37-2 Midnight Commander - A powerful fil e2fsprogs installed; purge (was: install). Required quota depends on libcomerr2 e2fsprogs provides libcomerr2 mc depends on libcomerr2
