Fred R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fred> I'm trying to install the package to upgrade the glibc 2.1.3 on my Fred> machine but I get a message that I need to install debinnutils first. So Fred> I tried to install that package and it tells me the I need to upgrade my Fred> libc to >=2.1. So what do I do now? Which comes first chicken or egg?
"Yes." This will work fine if you put them both on the same command line, e.g. 'dpkg --install libc*.deb debianutils*.deb'. Note that lots of things might have explicit dependencies on the older version of libc6, and other things might not have declared dependencies but will break anyways with the newer libc; if you have the bandwidth and don't mind some potential brokenness, it might be worth upgrading to the frozen preparing-for-release "potato" distribution (if you're using APT, change "stable" to "frozen" in /etc/apt/sources.list). -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
