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Originally Posted by jay73
Did you find out about apt-get install as well? That would have saved you a lot of dependency issues. Or Synaptic, which is a GUI that is very convenient to install, remove and update your packages.
May I ask which version you are running? Since you can't seem to find libc6, I assume it must be an older one. There is a good chance that a dist-upgrade is all that you need.
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First off I appologize for screwing up my very first post, misplacing it, etc.
I am using Debian Etch and it is quite current. What I meant by not being able to find libc6 is that if I go to install pidgin, it tells me it needs this file. If I try to install it, which the package installer is quite happy to try to do, it says it conflicts with tzdata (i believe), which was a timezone related bit that ties into so many things that apt-get remove suggested strongl that I do not remove it, so I did not.
The GAIM problem however has been solved by reinstallation of GAIM. I have no idea why it was acting like it was. It would just instantly close when I opened it.
As for apt-get install, well, I used that to try to set up a LAMP dev setup and well, that's a whole new post.
Thanks for the help folks!
My libc6 woes:
Moi:/etc/apache2# find / -name libc6*
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch2_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i686_2.3.6.ds1-13etch2_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.3.6.ds1-13etch2_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.3.6.ds1-13_i386.deb
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-dev.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-i686.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.shlibs
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-i686.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-dev.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-i686.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-i686.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-i686.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6-i686.shlibs
/home/shane/Desktop/Downloads/libc6_2.6.1-2_i386.deb
/usr/share/doc/libc6
/usr/share/doc/libc6-i686
/usr/share/doc/libc6-dev
How can I NOT have it? :???: