[vox-tech] Uninstalling glibc

[Ken Bloom]

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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:29:36PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> I get the following when I:
>=20
> meir:~# apt-get install libc6/stable libc6-dev/stable locales/stable
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Selected version 2.2.5-11.5 (Debian-Security:3.0/stable) for libc6
> Selected version 2.2.5-11.5 (Debian-Security:3.0/stable) for libc6-dev
> Selected version 2.2.5-11.5 (Debian-Security:3.0/stable) for locales
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   gdm: Depends: scrollkeeper (>=3D 0.1.4-1) but it is not going to be
> installed
>   libdb1-compat: Depends: libc6 (>=3D 2.2.5-13) but 2.2.5-11.5 is to be
> installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or spec=
ify
> a solution).
> meir:~#
>=20

When something like this happens, it means these probably need to be=20
downgraded too. (Recursively until you get a downgrade that works)

What occurred to me though, is that I should have simply suggested that=20
you should try pinning stable at some value higher than 1000, and then=20
dist-upgrade, which should do this more intelligently. Of course, if=20
you've upgraded other packages beyond stable and only want to downgrade=20
a few, then this method won't work (that's why I didn't think of it=20
right away - I rarely want to downgrade my whole distribution)

How to pin: In /etc/apt/preferences, put something like:

Package: *
Pin: release a=3Dstable
Pin-Priority: 1100

After you're finished downgrading, then remove this from=20
/etc/apt/preferences.
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