[ale] Fw: HOW2 resolve aptitude conflict ?

[James Sumners]

You need to specify the branch of Debian you are using. It sounds like
you are using stable, in which case the package
(http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7) has
a different initrd-tools requirement, but trying to install from
unstable (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/base/kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7).
That is _never_ a good idea IMHO.

If you want to run unstable, then you need to do a dist-upgrade.
Almost every single package on your system depends on libc6.
Therefore, replacing libc6 is no trivial task.

On 10/21/06, Courtney Thomas <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings !
>
>  I'm tryin' to install a new kernel:
>
>  ___________________________________
>
>      aptitude install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7
>
>  and I get:
>
>      libc6 broken
>
>      libc6 conflicts with initrd-tools < 0.1.84.1
>          but 0.1.81.1 to be installed
>  ___________________________________
>
>
>  Dilemma:
>      I can't remove libc6 'cause of MANY dependencies,
>      and I can't install the kernel 'cause it requires the
>      initrd-tools that libc6 won't allow
>
>  that is, there's a circular dependency-permission conundrum :-)
>
>  Being a Debian novitiate, how do I smoothely resolve this, please ?
>
>  Appreciatively,
> Courtney

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