libc6 dependency probl;em in dapper

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Mar 14 15:17:51 UTC 2006


Tony Arnold wrote:

> Adam Conrad wrote:
> 
>>>I've just tried doing a dist-upgrade on my dapper trial system that I've
>>>not touched for several weeks. It's hit a problem in that libc6-i686 is
>>>dependent on libc6 (=2.3.5-ubuntu17), however, libc6_2.3.6-0ubuntu9 is
>>>actually installed.
>> 
>> 
>> You've removed dapper from your sources.list at some point.
> 
> Nope, this is a virgin disk that has only ever had dapper installed on
> it. The source file is all dapper.

Absolutely.  It's nothing to do with the wrong version in dapper or on his
sources, it's to do with the fact that _at the time_ of installation, the
version is 2.3.5.  I've often had trouble with a libc6 upgrade, but it's
usually not as serious as this one was.

-- 
derek





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