Re: installing ELF-devel-tools
On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today I wanted to install the ELF development-stuff, so I got:
> binutils, bin86, gcc, gdb, xxgdb, ddd, libc5-devel, libg++, make,
> ncurses30-devel, slang-devel, slang-lib from the unstable-tree.
>
> When doing 'dpkg -i libc5-devel', it failed because of
> dependency-problems with libc-4.26.8.
>
The way I have solved this is to uninstall libc and install the libc4
package from the ELF tree. This is an updated version and will not
conflict with libc5 (the ELF libraries).
> Is it save to use --force-depends in this case? Don't want to screw up my
> system.....
>
> I had kind of the same thing with ncurses-devel. It has some
> dependency-problems with the old ncurses-stuff. What's the story here?
>
This is because packages have been split up and renamed differently in
teh 1.1 tree. I think that the best is to eliminate the old packages
first and the put in the new ones.
I have just been through a number of "upgrades" to 1.1 and I have found a
number of packages which fail because of duplicate files in other
packages. Using the --force-depends or --force-overwrite options is
absolutely necessary to get them installed. In many cases it is just a
question of a file which is duplicated in two packages (often from the
0.93 and 1.1 tree which as I have mentioned above, have significant changes).
Good luck!
Carlo
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