[linux-help] Re: apt-get help

[Nathan <ncozzens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's my understanding that LAME 3.7 requires glibc6 
2.2.  Won't that also be true if I compile LAME from 
source?  Are you saying to get an older version of 
LAME source?

Any ideas on how to revert my system back to Potato?

Nate

At 04:06 AM 6/11/01 -0500, you wrote:

>to be completely honest, i'd just download the lame 
>sources (that is the
>source to LAME, not that the sources are lame! : ^ 
>)  ...  should be a
>simple compile and you don't have to mess around with 
>upgrading glibc...
>
>gLaNDix
>
>On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Nathan wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:18:22 -0600
> > From: Nathan <ncozzens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> > To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [linux-help] apt-get help
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to get an MP3 encoder installed on my
> > Debian system.  I want to use Lame.  Lame requires
> > libc6 2.2.  Debian (potato) only has libc6
> > 2.1.  Pinehead.com had a little article talking about
> > how to fix this problem.  They recommended using the
> > libc6 2.2 package from "a different, but compatible
> > distribution, namely Progeny."  I ended up learning a
> > little lesson about apt-get:
> >
> > If you run the command "apt-get upgrade libc6", it
> > won't upgrade only libc6.  It will upgrade your whole
> > system.
> >
> > I've inadvertently "upgraded" my system to Progeny
> > Debian.  To add insult to injury, it didn't upgrade my
> > libc6.  I think Progeny is based on Debian's "testing"
> > package.  I'd kinda like to stay with the "stable"
> > package (Potato).
> >
> > I've made the changes to put my etc/apt/sources.list
> > file back the way it was, and I've run "apt-get
> > update" again.  However dselect is basically seeing
> > that I've got a more "advanced" version of all
> > installed packages.  Does anyone know how to undo what
> > I've done?
> >
> > Nate
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