On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, you wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:11:58AM +0100, Ulrich Hansmair wrote: > > hi debian-freaks, > > > > currently I installed potato with downloaded install-disks. Then I got me a > > few tiny things like less, .... with apt-get. I´ m not very experienced with > > linux, but it worked fine. > > > > Now I wanna compile me a kernel. So I got me all the needed packages > > (gcc,...). > > As I wanna use "make menuconfig" I tried to install the package > > libncurses4-dev > > (with dpkg -i). This resulted in a dependency error with package libc6-dev. > > This dependency problem exists also the other way round. > > > > What I m doing wrong? Even the --force-depends option of dpkg brought no > > solution. Can anybody give me a hint? > > Install both at once if you are using dpkg (dpkg -i foo.deb bar.deb ...). > Or better yet, continue to use apt-get. This was the solution. Thank you Ben.
So, if packages are mutual dependant they have to be installed at once? Is this a bug or a feature? Do you have some background about this? regards uli
