On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 08:19:50AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
> > This is by far the best way I have found of dealing with the
> > troublesome libc6 2.2.4-2 package. Simply edit the file
> > named '/etc/apt/preferences' and add lines like mine shown below.
> > Now everything should update easily and you can run galeon and
> > mozilla again. Also, see man apt_preferences(5) for more info.
> >
> > file:/etc/apt/preferences
> > Package: libc6
> > Pin: version 2.2.4-1
> > Pin-Priority: 1001
> >
> > Package: libc6-dev
> > Pin: version 2.2.4-1
> > Pin-Priority: 1001
> >
> > Package: locales
> > Pin: version 2.2.4-1
> > Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> Nice, but I found it simpler just to run dselect and mark the libc6 and
> locale packages with the "hold" flag after manually downgrading to 2.2.4-1.
>
What is this "hold" flag you speak of? I had trouble with 'dselect'
because every time marked the packed to not be processed ('=') it
automatically changed it. I tried this after manually downdgrading
like what you describe.
> Craig
>
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