Is there a way to easily update core system packages without waiting for a
new Trisquel or gutting the system? When I try to download the .deb package
file for the newer libc6, it tells me it breaks the old libc6 package. When
I try to uninstall the old libc6, it demands I uninstall about 96% of the
entire operating system and almost everything on it as almost every program
plugs into libc6. When I try to update, it won't, because the new libc6 is
not in the Trisquel repositories. Aside from waiting for the next Trisquel
release, is there a better way to update to the newest libc6 without gutting
my entire system and re-installing each and ever package manually in
terminal? (As the gui is now dead because it's attached to libc6, as is
almost everything.)
The newest versions of Free Software video games, and I'm assuming other
programs as well, demand the newest versions of libraries and fallow Ubuntu
as a standard. Unfortunately, and I could be wrong, it seems as though Free
Software systems tend to lag behind in keeping to the new standards set by
Ubuntu. I love Free Software and donated to the FSF for more than a year. I
intend to keep using Free Software and Trisquel 3.0 is my favorite OS so far.
However, it seems based on hardy and hardy is now old and outdated. Ubuntu
went to lucid, and many new versions of games and programs want the new
standards lucid implements.
I don't want to wait for a new Trisquel to be released to stay up to date
with programs and games. I have downloaded the libc6 package for lucid from
ubuntu packages. There must be some way to easily put it in without having
to manually rebuild my entire system.
Honestly, the main reason I moved from gNewSense to Trisquel 3.0 and the
newest gNewSense and the next to newest Trisquel still use libcubsys2 instead
of libcups2 and that gave me the same nightmare because it is connected to
printing and would have required me to manually gut the system to replace. I
had started to do so until I read about Trisquel 3.0.
I love Free Software and will continue using it whatever the answer because
it's about Freedom. I will say, though, that this does seriously bug me
because it keeps Free Systems consistently one step behind everyone else.
I'm guessing the updating is slower because of checking each package in the
new standard for Freedom and I understand that.
But, I figure (and could be wrong) that a libc6 is just as Free Software from
Trisquel and ubuntu packages. There must be an easier way to force it to
automatically install like any other deb package. I asked on the gNewSense
forum about libcups2, no one responded last time I checked. Hope that isn't
a bad sign that my best hope is waiting for a new Trisquel or five or more
hours of manual gutting.
Love what you all do and take care. Thank GNU.
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