On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:26:12PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: > apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message > perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3. > attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message. > I installed libc6 from /var/cache/apt using dpkg and 'apt-get -f > install' worked again.
Just to avoid this type of problem, I always install woody version of apt by: # apt-get install apt first, before doing real massive "dist-upgrade". It pulls glibc 2.2 and new perl and libdb.so... But no large X programs. > I set up my system with a 1G / partition. Apparently this is not > sufficient for a successful dist-upgrade. I now have to re-download > 300M because I had to do an 'apt-get clean' when I ran out of space. > Can /var/cache/apt/archives be a symlink? I think so too. I even saw few previous posting mounting /var/cache/apt/archives from different machine by NFS. > Installing konsole failed because it shared its 16x16 icon file with > (the old version of) kdebase. A dpkg -i --force-overwrite got it > installed (but not configured) and 'apt-get -f install' cleaned up > afterwards. "testing" sometimes has broken dependency which requires packages from "unstable". Read "man apt_preferences" once you install woody version of apt. ... > Debconf really really needs a 'back' button, not just dpkg-reconfigure. > Which package do I reconfigure to fix my monitor settings? Aha, > xserver-svga is it. Hmm, that should have been replaced by > xserver-xfree86 in the woody upgrade, no? File a wishlist bug report (may be there already :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +