You can kill this as a bug, as I eventually had to abandon the installation and went to Edgy from (downloaded image of) CD.
However, the cause of the trouble is, I think, a mismatch of libraries used by Ubuntu and those used in the Gnome project. I've now found that I can succeed in building the latest Gnumeric (I'm involved in the project constructing test spreadsheets that are useful for any spreadsheet processor -- in fact we supply xls to encourage folk to actually see the Excel bugs). What I do now is run plain Debian Testing under VM Ware and the builds seem to work OK. While I haven't figured out exactly which libraries Ubuntu has substituted or put in a different location, I have had to sometimes make some changes after installs. e.g. Emelfm needs a symlink to an executable. FYI there have been other reports of trouble trying to build Gnome components under Ubuntu and similar suspicions about libraries or links. The upshot of this is that it would be helpful to have a list of the differences in libraries of locations from Debian. Perhaps such a list already exists, but I haven't found it yet. This is not a bug, but a source of bug reports. And I'm sure there are good reasons for the changes. In fact, it would also be helpful to know what those reasons are -- there are lots of packages that take some work to make function together, and sharing the knowledge could save some effort. Cheers, JN Timo Aaltonen wrote: > I understand that you had an unclean system when trying an upgrade (and > an unofficial repository listed), so I'm rejecting this bug because of > that. If I've misunderstood, please reopen. > > ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) > Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected > -- Could not install libc6_2.4-1ubuntu12_i386.deb https://launchpad.net/bugs/71521 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
