So for now, what should I do? Should I just force it to ignor dependencies? Or may be someone can point me to the location of binary file for libc6. I can try to install then
manually. But I really need libc6 or I'm dead in the water. Thanks, Fred R. Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > Unforunately, this is not the case. In this case, libc *Pre* > depends on deibanutils, and debianutils *Pre* depends on libc. > I have already submitted a bug report against libc. > > This little bug will prevent apt to upgrade from slink to > potato, becuase apt-get cannot resolve the predependency loop. > > Shao. > > David Z. Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > -- > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ > Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ > University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | > Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |___/ > _____________________________________________________________________________ > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Fred Rahmanian Certified Inprise Instructor (Delphi 5/JBuilder 3) Sun Certified Java Programmer http://www.sourcetechcorp.com
