On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:26:43PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I'm trying to install a .deb package which depends on libc6>=2.1.97 > and have been unable to locate it. I run Potato and only have > v.2.1.3-13 of libc6.
From the sound of it, you're trying to install a package from woody or sid on your potato system. You can't really do that directly. woody is based on glibc 2.2, while potato is 2.1. They are not necessarily binary compatible. What you should do is download the source for the debian package. Put a deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list that looks something like this: deb-src http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian unstable main contrib non-free Then run apt-get update. After that, you'll be able to do to 'apt-get source -b foo' where foo is the Debian package you want. That will pull the source down, apply the necessary Debian patch, and build a new .deb for you. Note that it will do it in the current directory, so it's best to make a new directory for such a build. If the build fails, you may not have all the source dependencies. Potato's apt-get doesn't support source dependency checking (though woody's will). Check the debian/control file in the unpacked source archive for a Build-Depends line, which will list the packages necessary to compile the package. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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