Guys I could really use a steer if someone has one for me. I am running Buster on the machine in question. Upgrading and using a usb3 antenna for ac internet speeds. I have this driver installed on several other buster machines and it is fast as hell. On this machine somehow, someway, I have caused a broken package. and the driver won't install. Let me paste in the terminal output below to see if you guys can give me a way to correct this scenario: attempted terminal install of libc6-dev after downloading from Debian mirror to my Desktop XXX@debian:~$ cd Desktop && sudo dpkg -i libc6-dev_2.28-10_amd64.deb [sudo] password for XXX: Selecting previously unselected package libc6-dev:amd64. (Reading database ... 235438 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack libc6-dev_2.28-10_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libc6-dev:amd64 (2.28-10) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dev:amd64: libc6-dev:amd64 depends on libc6 (= 2.28-10); however: Version of libc6:amd64 on system is 2.29-2. libc6-dev:amd64 depends on libc-dev-bin (= 2.28-10); however: Package libc-dev-bin is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libc6-dev:amd64 (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6-dev:amd64 XXX@debian:~/Desktop$ Question: does anyone know of a reasonable way to downgrade libc6 to 2.28-10 from the current version libc6 2.29-2? I have a crap load of personal modifications on this drive so avoiding a scratch reinstall would be highly preferable. Should a reinstall be required I may elect to stay with the older slower motherboard nics on this machine. A rebuild would be a solid day and a half at least. This Buster OS is running slick, updates great, and is flawless up until I decided to load the linux driver that comes with the antenna. Again, it works fine on my other Buster setups. Don't remember what I did that would cause the 2.29-2 version to be on this system. Ideas anybody? ps - Support for the driver (realtek) says ANY version of libc6-dev will work, so even some upgraded version of that would be fine.
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/02/how-to-downgrade-packages-to-specific.html So maybe in your case it would be: apt install libc6-dev=<your wanted version here> or something like that ...
That link has some great reading. THANK YOU. I will come back and post if this works so others can use it if they end up in a ditch like me, LOL! It may be a day or so until I get to it.
libc6 is at the core of Debian Gnu/Linux. Debian Buster comes with version 2.28-10 of libc6, so you managed to create FrankenDebian. Paste output of: Code: apt-cache policy libc6 apt-cache policy libc6-dev
Yep, guilty. I have read alot about FrankenDebians --- nightmares really. XXX@debian:~$ sudo apt-cache policy libc6 && apt-cache policy libc6-dev [sudo] password for XXX: libc6: Installed: 2.29-2 Candidate: 2.29-2 Version table: *** 2.29-2 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.28-10 500 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages libc6-dev: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.28-10 Version table: 2.28-10 500 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages XXX@debian:~$ I have tested the waters in a terminal for downgrade: sudo apt install libc6-dev=2.28-10 libc6=2.28-10 libc-dev-bin=2.28-10 If I would have allowed my system to complete that downgrade it would have been an explosion with over 400 files being removed. Frankens are a mess. I don't have any idea what I did because it was so stupid! As I mentioned earlier this OS runs so well. The realtek driver I need for the antenna requires libc6-dev (any version). So, live with slower already working nics OR a from scratch install. Any other ideas?
Found out how I created a "Franken". When I was running Stretch I wanted to have FF Quantum, which was not in the stable repository. In my genius and after reading around online I added the SID respository to the sources list and added PIN priorities to keep the rest of my Stretch OS at stable versions. Paste below. Since that time I upgraded to Buster without issues at all. Once again, running slick. #lines added for quantum firefox deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main sudo gedit /etc/apt/preferences GNU nano 3.2 /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 2 Package: firefox Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 501 Package: libfontconfig1 Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 501 Package: fontconfig-config Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 501 Package: libnss3 Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 501 end paste. I no longer use the SID repo. I doubt removing these PIN settings is likely to help me but tomorrow I may give it a try.
