Re: [PLUG] Upgrading Debian testing from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

[Antony P Joseph <antony@panathara.org>]

Hi

  Please try the force option of dpkg. It may work.

With regards
Antony 
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:48 -0400, Mike Leone wrote:
> SO I never got around to upgrading my home server (running Debian 
> testing) from kernel 2.4 to 2.6. Then today I did some upgrades, and - 
> not paying too much attention - didn't realize that one of the things I 
> told it to upgrade requires libc6 for kernel 2.6.x.
> 
> <SIGH>
> 
> So now it won't install this version of libc6, without a kernel 2.6. I 
> tried to tell it to install linux-image-2.6.21, figuring that would get 
> me a kernel 2.6 machine. But of course, the kernel 2.6 won't install, 
> since apt-get is trying to install libc6 first (which is failing).
> 
> So how do I fix this? I'd like to get to kernel 2.6.21, *then* install 
> the simple updates I was trying for (I was trying to upgrade aptitude to 
> the latest version, when I screwed myself over this way).
> 
> Any help appreciated. The system (which is my mail server) is running, 
> and I won't reboot it (or touch it ... :-)) until I can get this resolved.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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