Bug in build-essential. Dapper

[Florian Diesch]

Zizo <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:

> *dist-upgrade* returned the following:
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
> python-vtk
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>
> same dependency on *libc6-dev *is still remaining after trying to
> install *build-essential
>
> *I wish I hadn't upgraded to Dapper, maybe a fresh install would have
> been better. What is going on here? I mean why *libc6-dev* is not being
> installed?

Sorry, I don't really understand your problem. python-vtk doen't depend
on libc6-dev.
Maybe running 'apt-get dist-upgrade' again or installing python-vtk manually
with 'apt-get install python-vtk' may help.

   Florian
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