Hello;
I have 2 problems... I'm currently running slink, and: 1) I wanted to upgrade bluefish. But I wnted the version which comes with potato. So I thought, "Well, if apt-get handles dependencies correctly, I just have to add frozen to my mirrors list, and it'll get whatever packages are needed. If it asks me for a huge set of packges, then it would probably mean I'd better upgrade to potato first." I know it's probably not a good idea, but it sounded so reasonable... Anyway... I did it, and apt-get told me just a few packages would be messed with: > socrates:~# apt-get install bluefish > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > libgtk1.2 gdk-imlib1 g++ g77 libstdc++2.10 cpp gcc zlib1g xlib6g imlib-base > libc6-dev gobjc > libstdc++2.10-dev libc6 binutils ldso > The following packages will be REMOVED: > timezones libstdc++2.9-dev egcc checker > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libstdc++2.10 libstdc++2.10-dev > 15 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 4 to remove and 693 not upgraded. > Need to get 11.9MB of archives. After unpacking 6888kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] But then, after downloading, it complained about some dependencies - this is what I get when I run the installation again (dpkg --configure --pending tells me sort of the same thing): > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libgtk1.2: Depends: gconv-modules but it is not installable > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed > g77: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed > Depends: gcc (>= 1:2.95.2-4) but 2.7.2.3-7 is installed > libstdc++2.10: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed > cpp: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed > gcc: Depends: cpp (< 2.7.2.4) but 1:2.95.2-7 is installed > xlib6g: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed > gobjc: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed > Depends: gcc (>= 1:2.95.2-4) but 2.7.2.3-7 is installed > binutils: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but 2.0.7.19981211-6 is installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify > a solution). And after that, Netscape stopped working: > socrates Temp$ /usr/lib/netscape/netscape: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6: undefined symbol: __rawmemchr Did I do a too big mess? Anyway, I don't know exactly what to do now... I do want to upgrade to potato, but I'm not sure if I should do it - which brings us to the second point: 2) Since the version of XFree86 which comes with slink doesn't support my video card - S3 Trio 3D/2X (Diamond Speedstar A55) - I decided to upgrade right after installation. But as far as I remember, potato also uses an old version of it... So I just downloaded the files and installed them without using dpkg at all (and well, it solved my problem!). So... dpkg thinks I have the old version. And I tried an apt-get upgrade, and it told me it'd download X. So... Would it be safe to upgrade to potato and then just do that X upgrade again? And may there be any other problems when upgrading? Thanks a lot... I have 2 huge books that don't usually help much, and I've done some searches in the web before attempting things, but I'm swamped, and also... Local telephone calls are charged per minute in Brazil, so I try not to stay too much time online. (I'd have to do the upgrades between 00:00 and 6:00 am, when calls are much cheaper) J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
