On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Ted Llewellyn wrote: > Well, this is very pretty. I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default > SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade > to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do > that I have to upgrade libstdc++2.8, and apparently to do THAT, dpkg has > to unconfigure itself. Since I'm running dselect, how is this supposed > to work? Here is the output from dselect: > > dpkg: considering removing libstdc++2.8 in favour of libc6 ... > dpkg: no, dpkg is essential, will not deconfigure > it in order to enable removal of libstdc++2.8. > dpkg: regarding .../base/libc6_2.0.7u-7.1.deb containing libc6: > libc6 conflicts with libstdc++2.8 (<< 2.90.29-2) > libstdc++2.8 (version 2.90.29-0.6) is installed. > dpkg: error processing > debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/libc6_2.0.7u: > conflicting packages - not installing libc6
Can you tell why you'd have to upgrade libc6? Quickly looking at the sane and libc6 packages that are currently in 'unstable' I don't see it. It looks like you are trying to install a new libc6 package which conflicts with old libstdc++2.8 packages. You could try to also upgrade the libstdc++2.8 package to a newer version, but I don't know if that would break other things. Remco