[64studio-devel] Upgrades: GIMP & GCC

[Daniel James]

Hi Susan,

> As you suggested above, I tried removing the 64studio package and then 
> reinstalling. I got an error about setting up sysv-rc-bootsplash when I 
> removed the package. Then I got errors when trying to reinstall.
> 
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/cdd-utils_0.3_all.deb: trying to overwrite 
> `/usr/lib/tasksel/packages/kernel', which is also in package 
> 64studio-tasksel-data

If you remove the 64studio package, then the 64studio-tasksel-data 
package, then reinstall the 64studio package, that should be fixed.

> And I'm still having the same flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper 
> errors:

>  Depends: libc6-i386 but it is not going to be installed

Yes, that's the same thing I was seeing - it only affects AMD64 systems 
that need to run i386 binaries. The reason is that Debian updated the 
glibc package twice, in July and August, and the version number no 
longer matched exactly:

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.3.6.ds1-13etch4/changelog

So the work-around is to check that you have the version of libc6-i386 
which ends in etch4, and if not, upgrade or install it. Then you should 
be able to install flashplugin-nonfree as normal.

> Setting up sysv-rc-bootsplash (1.0.5-4~etch1) ...
> Testing if patches apply cleanly...
> 6 out of 8 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file /etc/init.d/rc.rej
> Patches would not apply cleanly.

I'm not seeing that, but maybe that's because I'm running the 2.6.23 
kernel on this machine. Are you running the standard 2.6.21 kernel from 
the 2.0 release?

Let us know how you get on :-)

Cheers!

Daniel