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libc6 2.6 and libc6 2.5

Asked by ipina

My OS is Ubuntu Feisty on an AMD64 processor. By installing Pdfedit I needed the package libc6 2.6 - which is not an official pack of Ubuntu -, so this program runs ok. However, I'm experiencing some troubles because libc6 2.5 is not present on my system. For example, if I try to install flash and java for 64 bits macines - there's a brilliant script on Ubuntu forums written by Kilz - I got errors related to the absence of libc6 2.5 - which is an official pack of Ubuntu - As you probably guess, if I try to install libc6 2.5 I can't since a later version is already on my system. So, is there any way to have the two versions of libc6? If not, what will I lose in case of uninstalling version 2.6 and reinstall the 2.5 one? I know there's a great variety of applications depending on libc6 so, if I uninstall libc6 2.6, I'm afraid all such applications will be deleted as well. I'd greatly appreciate any suggestion, thanks for your patience.

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#1

You can try to compile pdfedit for your platform so that you are not limited to the specific version of libc6 that the package requires.
Compiling pdfedit is medium difficulty, but I do not know your IT background. In general you install "build-essential", and start the compilation; if something is missing during compilation, you install the development (dev) library and restart compiling.

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) said : 		#2

Or you can locate the package maintainer for AMD64 pdfedit and ask kindly to make available an updated version.

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ipina (sipina-mac) said : 		#3

Thanks for your answer. My problem is not with pdfedit - which I can compile, yes - My trouble now is that I have installed libc6 2.6 but I do need to have installed libc6 2.5. As I mentioned, I can't because I have a later version (2.6) so, is there any way to install libc6 2.5 without uninstalling libc6 2.6? Thanks again for your interest. Greetings.

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ipina (sipina-mac) said : 		#4

I decided to replace libc6 2.6 with libc6 2.5 as I think the two versions couldn't 'cohabit'. If somebody is interested, the way to do that is by forcing version in Synaptic. Obviously, I should reinstall pdfedit by compiling it. Anyway, thanks a lot to Simos Xenitellis.