[CVALE] Installing Debs...

[Landon Blake]

Thanks Ian.

When I wanted to install the new version of libglib Apt wanted to remove
145 other packages, which had me a little concerned. (I'm guessing
libglib is related to GTK, because it looked like all of my GTK apps
where going to get removed.)

Is there a way to have more than one version of a single Debian package
on my box? Can I get Apt to install the new versions while keeping the
old versions?

Or have I just discovered the Linux version of DLL hell?

Landon

-----Original Message-----
From: cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com
[mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of Ian Sterling
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 2:16 PM
To: cvale at cvale.org
Subject: Re: [CVALE] Installing Debs...

Most of the time, your software will (should) work just fine with
newer versions of libglib and libc6. If you do have a problem, it's
not finding the right revision number or whatnot, you can easily
symlink the current one to the missing lib and it'll work just fine.

But yes, when apt removes a previous package, it will completely
remove it, to my knowledge.

--Ian...

On 4/7/06, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> I am trying to install Mono on my Debian System. I went to
backports.org and
> downloaded the Mono packages for Sarge, the version of Debian I am
running.
> When I tried to install Mono apt told me that I needed a more recent
version
> of libc6 and libglib. I donwloaded these from the main Debian
repository.
>
>
>
> When I try to update libc6 and libglib I get a long list of packages
that
> will be removed. Does this mean removed as in "permanently removed, no
> longer on your system"? That wouldn't be good! Am I going to "break"
all
> that other software if I try to update these two packages?
>
>
>
> Is there a work-around?
>
>
>
> Landon
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