A very simple question
 

Hi all!

Thanks for being here. I hit Debian linux just this year, and am having some fun with it. I have a few frustrations as well however. Juggling dependencies for simple apps is frustrating to me. I have no idea why certain apps just refuse to work as well.

GAIM basically just never would stay running. It would shut completely down at random, and actually usually just shut down immediately after I started it. I found out about apt-get remove, and then set about trying to get pidgin, the next generation GAIM, to work, only to discover that not only was Debian installed on my box with something I guess short of libc6, but that I have no idea how to get up to snuff. Consequently, it appears I am im-less.

Also, and this is a very simple question I have to imagine -- I have apache2, mysql, and PhP all set and ready to go it seems, and I need to know where to put my PhPBB3 in order to hit it with localhost?

It is way late.... I probabaly shoulda been in bed hours ago. Thanks for reading.

-Shane

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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.

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? :???:

Weird, I could have sworn that pidgin installs very easily on Debian Lenny (apt-get install pidgin; in fact, I believe it's even installed by default...).

Well, I had GAIM, which keeps shutting down instantly at startup from time to time, was the original problem. I wanted to try pidgen. I am still on Etch. So that may explain that aspect. I am hearing more than one place now that Pidgen is in the unstable release.

Thanks.