[ale] Fw: HOW2 resolve aptitude conflict ? <---- ATTN: James Sumners

[Courtney Thomas]

James,

Thank you for your reply.

As I'm sure you can tell, I'm awkwardly groping toward Debian literacy and
am now
quite befuddled at the murky descriptions of 'foolin' with Debian'.  :-)

Anyway, to attempt more clarity on my current circumstance.....

I was runnin' 2.4.17 and want to upgrade to Sarge, which I've belatedly
learned
is, apparently, capable of runnin' under 2.4.27 as well as 2.6x. I've been
told
that it would be best at this point to stay with 2.4.27 rather than tryin'
to go 2.6.x.

So, at this point I'm plannin' on installing 2.4.27 by means of:

    aptitude install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7

which produced the errors to which you referred.

I should also add that I've, probably mistakenly, already
switched to "sarge" in my sources.list and:

    apt-get update
    apt-get -u dist-upgrade

but....have not installed an appropriate 'new' kernel

Now, given your fuller understanding, that "stable" is what
I'm after:

1 - since I did the dist-upgrade to 'sarge' while runnin' 2.4.17,
     where am I now, regarding what is currently installed  ?

2 - what do you recommend to resolve the libc6/newKernel
     need, given that I've already done a sarge dist-upgrade  ?

I apologize for the length of this msg but hopefully this will
permit clarity for your effort to bail-me-out  :-)

Most appreciatively,

Courtney





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Fw: HOW2 resolve aptitude conflict ?


> 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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>
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