On 2021-10-27 at 06:57, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a .deb package from HP (hp-health) that has this requirement, > and doesn't install because of it. It got damaged somehow during the > last dist-upgrade. I think I'd better re-install it. > > I have both libc6:i386 and lib32gcc-s1 (on an AMD 64bit machine). > libc6-i686:i386 is tagged 'rc' transitional dummy package.
libc6, or libc5? The Subject line says the latter, but AFAIK the latter hasn't been a thing for Quite A Long While Now (if indeed at all). What version? On my system (tracking testing+stable), libc6:i386 is available at versions 2.32-4 and 2.31-13+deb11u2, and neither one of them is a transitional or a dummy package. I check with 'apt-cache policy libc6:i386' and then 'apt-cache show libc6:i386'. The 'rc' tag, as reported by e.g. 'dpkg -l', indicates "this package used to be installed, but it's been removed, although its configuration files have been left behind". I believe the 'r' stands for 'removed' and the 'c' for 'config-files' or similar. So, if that's what you have showing, then you don't actually have this package installed at the moment. It seems possible that this might have been what changed during the dist-upgrade you mentioned. > HP doesn't seem to be inclined to update their support packages. > Should I force the install, rebuild the package with a different > DEBIAN/control, or something else? If the dependencies actually list a package and version that aren't available, for something as fundamental as the C library, I wouldn't expect any good results from overriding the dependencies like that; there might well be an actual incompatibility, such that at best you'd get an installed program that wouldn't run. > BTW, is the latter option just dpkg-deb -R followed by dpkg-deb -b? That I don't know. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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