From: Earle Martin Date: 18:42 on 04 Sep 2003 Subject: Thunderbird / dependencies I decided to try installing Mozilla Thunderbird (the mail and news app) to try it out. Turns out it wants a bunch of libraries that are provided by libc++5. Of course, this is in Debian's testing development, not stable, so my apt-get can't find it. (Can I tell apt-get about testing?) Anyway, downloading the dependencies by hand (sigh...) from packages.debian.org I get to this charming state of affairs: earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg -i libc6_2.3.1-16_i386.deb (Reading database ... 75274 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.1-16 (using libc6_2.3.1-16_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6: libc6 depends on libdb1-compat; however: Package libdb1-compat is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libc6 (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg -i libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb (Reading database ... 75274 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 (using libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libdb1-compat ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdb1-compat: libdb1-compat depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libdb1-compat (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libdb1-compat earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg --configure libdb1-compat dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdb1-compat: libdb1-compat depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libdb1-compat (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libdb1-compat earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg --configure libc6 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6: libc6 depends on libdb1-compat; however: Package libdb1-compat is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 In other words - circular dependencies! How in God's name is it possible to install these libraries then? Screw this, I'm sticking with Mozilla Mail & News.
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