On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:51:56AM -0700, Stephen Handley wrote: > In an attempt to get the IPMASQADM package up and running I went and > upgraded to libc6 2.2.3-9 (or whatever the trailing numbers are). Well now a > heap of stuff has compatibility issues. I tried removing the new libc6 to > reinstall the old one .. just to make sure that's what had caused all the > problems, but I haven't been able to figure out how.
! dpkg will downgrade, no need to remove and install from scratch (and if you manage to remove libc6 you won't be able to run dpkg to install it again ...). > DPKG, APT-GET and DSELECT all refuse to let me delete libc6 because of > all the dependencies. > > So is there an easy way to upgrade the packages that depend on libc6 so that > they're compatible with the newer version. In practice, a full upgrade with dselect (or 'apt-get dist-upgrade') is the safest way. Upgrading libc6 from stable to testing/unstable without upgrading the rest of the distribution is unfortunately not really safe, although if you upgrade libdb2 and perl as well you'll probably be OK. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]