On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Yaron wrote: > Ok, I got debian up on this Indy and I'm trying to update things, and > install new packages... and I've hit a nice dependency hell... > > It's trying to upgrade libc6. > > It gives off a bunch of warnings, and then fails... and I'm assuming > it's because the kernel's too old. It says it wants 2.4.22, and this > machine's 2.4.16. > > Now apt-get freaks on everything and won't install anything. It makes me > run apt-get -f install, which doens't help at all. > > I tried to manually make a new kernel, but, uh. This machine doesn't > even have 'make' on it, and I don't have another indy to build a kernel > on (: Can you download the libc6 and kernel packages, and 'dpkg -i --force-all' install them, along with the required packages? dpkg -i --force-all'ing the kernel alone may fix apt enough to get apt-get -f install to work, too. It seems that Debian has a lot of these type of problems on non-i386 arch's; I know that Bob ran into a very similar issue on an old Sparc. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list