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I decided to try installing Mozilla Thunderbird (the mail and news app) to
try it out. Turns out it wants a bunch of libraries that are provided by
libc++5. Of course, this is in Debian's testing development, not stable, so
my apt-get can't find it. (Can I tell apt-get about testing?)
Anyway, downloading the dependencies by hand (sigh...) from
packages.debian.org I get to this charming state of affairs:
earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg -i libc6_2.3.1-16_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 75274 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.1-16 (using libc6_2.3.1-16_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6:
libc6 depends on libdb1-compat; however:
Package libdb1-compat is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libc6 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc6
earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg -i libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 75274 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 (using
libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libdb1-compat ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdb1-compat:
libdb1-compat depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13); however:
Package libc6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libdb1-compat (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libdb1-compat
earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg --configure libdb1-compat
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdb1-compat:
libdb1-compat depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13); however:
Package libc6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libdb1-compat (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libdb1-compat
earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg --configure libc6
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6:
libc6 depends on libdb1-compat; however:
Package libdb1-compat is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc6
In other words - circular dependencies! How in God's name is it possible to
install these libraries then?
Screw this, I'm sticking with Mozilla Mail & News.
--
# Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin
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