This is an attempt to supply more detail on a problem reported in
another recent post.
I have installed a dual-boot of etch and Windows XP on a recently
purchased HP machine that has a SATA hard disk (i386).
Recently I have installed gcc-4.1 and emacs-21 using downloads
of the "weekly build" iso images. These seem to be working.
I asked aptitude to install gnumeric and got messages:
*** packages to be downgraded:
libc6 2.3.6.ds1-2.3.6.ds1-i
libc6-amd64 (same thing)
libc6-dev
packages being deleted due to unsatisfied dependencies
emacs 21 21.4a+1-3
packages to be removed
grub 0.97-23
*** (end of aptitude messages)
This alarming response led me to exit from aptitude without
trying the install. I agree with a previous respondent that
this is probably not a problem with gnumeric, since I got very
similar messages when I asked about installing octave and also
gnuchess.
Thanks for any ideas about how to deal with this situation.
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