I got the 3.13 from woody and it installed on a slink, without
problems ....
On 19 Apr 00, at 11:11, Michael Stevens wrote:
> files changed > incompatibly at version 3.0. Other comments you make
> show that you are > using documentation for a 3.x version, so you need
> to use the > appropriate documentation for the version you are running
> [copies of > multiple versions of documentation are on the website in
> HTML, probably > don't have the other formats].
>
> v2.05 is the latest version available with any debian release
> described as 'stable'.
>
> > > I thought about upgrading to the latest version, but the Debian
> > > package manager wants to remove half my system (including
> > > timezones!, gcc, and egcs) due to dependencies of some sort.
> > Strange.... I'd call that broken packaging, or you are upgrading
> > across an incompatible set of system libraries.
>
> It is an incompatible set of system libraries -- almost all recent
> debian packages depend on a) new versions of the packaging system and
> b) new libc packages, which usually mean a hell of a lot of stuff gets
> replaced.
Leonardo Boselli
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Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
Universita` di Firenze
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