Re: What is libc5-i686 | lib32gcc1 (for proliant)

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: What is libc5-i686 \| lib32gcc1 (for proliant)
Date	2021-12-10 11:50 +0100
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On Ma, 26 oct 21, 20:11:25, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a .deb package from HP (hp-health) that has this requirement, and
> doesn't install because of it.  It got damaged somehow during the last
> dist-upgrade.  I think I'd better re-install it.

Do you have a typo in your Subject: line? According to 
snapshot.debian.org libc5 was last seen in Debian in 2009.

> I have both libc6:i386 and lib32gcc-s1 (on an AMD 64bit machine).
> libc6-i686:i386  is tagged 'rc' transitional dummy package.

That will be sufficient to satisfy the dependency declared by the HP 
package, though it's unclear whether the package it depends on will 
satisfy the real dependency.

You might as well just try it out ;)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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What is libc5-i686 | lib32gcc1 (for proliant) Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> - 2021-10-26 20:20 +0200
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