"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote:
>> run 'apt-get -f install'
>>
>> then try again. if that doesn't work, repeat, but don't retry.
>> anything related to libc etc al. is sketchy to update. if libstdc++
>> won't install, you can always force it to...
>
> Yeah, I tried that already.
>
> I'm wondering if the last package is, perhaps, not in stable for some
>reason?
Stable? You seem to have your system somewhere between stable and
unstable at the moment ...
libc6 | 2.1.3-18 | stable | i386
libc6 | 2.2.3-1 | testing | i386
libc6 | 2.2.3-1 | unstable | i386
> BTW, is anyone planning to expand the errors in apt-get to explain _why_
>something isn't going to be installed?
I guess the apt folks would say something to the effect that apt-get was
only meant as a proof of concept / debugging tool in the first place,
and this sort of thing can and should be left up to frontends such as
aptitude and console-apt/deity. You could try 'apt-get -o
Debug::pkgProblemResolver=1 install foo', though (documented in
apt.conf(5)).
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
