On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 02:11:20AM +1100, Drake Diedrich wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 01:44:23PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > if i understood correctly, you are autobuilding packages with > > glibc2.1, while every other debian/ppc user has older versions of > > lgibc arround ? does it not cause problem ? It does autobuild wmaker refuses to run because of some unknown symbol (dont remember what was the exact error message) any way i;m just downloading glibc-2.1 debs from Hartmut web page. > > > > I was attempting to install Debian-PPC on a coworkers' G3 Mac today and > had problems. Eventually what I had to do was "ar xv/tar xf data.tar.gz" > the libc6, tar, fileutils, and dpkg packages, and then atomically copy those > directories over the top of the previous system. libc6 2.0.100 broke the > other 3 packages if installed first (preventing further installs), while if I also had similar situation. I got over it by first installing apt and using apt as dselect method. Apt is apparently smarter than dpkg itself and this way i installed my system almost with no hassle.
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