APT question

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Tue Jun 5 08:23:22 EDT 2007


Ed lawson <elawson at grizzy.com> writes:

> For reasons best left unsaid, I tried to upgrade a Debian system only
> to discover the upgrade of libc6 requires a 2.6 kernel.  since kernel
> versions are not part of the upgrade process I need to upgrade the
> kernel separately.  The problem is when I try to install a 2.6
> kernel, APT keeps barfing due to an inability to upgrade libc6.  
>
> My question is how to I tell APT to forget about all the pending
> package upgrades and just install a kernel?  Is there some command to
> tell it to start fresh and clear out what it thinks it needs to do?

You might try aptitude which often has better dependency resolution than apt.
You might also try downloading the specific deb and using dpkg -i.
-- 
Seeya,
Paul


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