My PopOS is totally fucked. Audio is fucked because of some problem with systemd and I can't upgrade shit to try to fix it.
This is the dumbest shit. I hate apt so much. Never fails to produce issues.
My crime? Trying to install GLIBC 2.38? Is that such a crime??
@cleverboi you have entered... DEPENDENCY HELL
you will most likely need to downgrade glibc to the version podman expects and then remove the "manually installed" flag
To compile something, I needed the zlib1g-dev package to be installed so I launched an apt-get install zlib1g-dev. apt-get informed me nicely that the package was already auto-installed because o...
@cleverboi if you were installing packages from unstable / experimental branches you should probably also read
@fdavies93 Thanks for the response. I will try this.
I should note that at no place does apt actually refer to glibc as being part of the issue. It’s just a system package that I forcibly upgraded because of the number of Rust projects I can’t run with this hella old glibc in the PopOS repos.
I do take accountability for forcibly upgrading a low level system package and I was aware of the risk at the time of doing so, but I still blame apt for the shit-tier error messages.
@cleverboi rust programmers all using arch is a stereotype for a good reason, it seems...
you may want to take a look at histories of projects / packages to see if any are compatible with older glibc variants
@ahoneybun I am aware of this, but two counterpoints.
One, I am upgrading from 2.36 to 2.38 which I would not expect to include breaking changes if it follows semvar
Two, no error message at any point has mentioned glibc. It’s just the only system package I’ve messed with that I can think of and, as you said, it is very low level.
My point being if that’s really the issue, apt does an absolutely horrible job of saying so.
@cleverboi it looks like you've told it to hold a package so it won't attempt to fix or update it. I don't know the command to I find which package or I hold it though and I'm on my phone so mega tedious to search the internet.
Boosted in case someone has the magic commands to hand, but hope you can undo whatever changes broke it :)
@CenturyAvocado I do indeed have held back packages.
It’s been a while since I’ve run a Debian/Ubuntu-based distro so the concept of “held back” is very odd to me. The internet told me they should have been approved by now, and I’ve done everything I can find to try to force update the held back packages, but it refuses to.
Nice! Well done!
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