Wayne Stallwood wrote:
it looks like your options are as follows
Follow MJR's advice and build YVM against your libc6 ( it really isn't as scary as it sounds)
Tell us the version of libc6 dpkg was asking for so we can see if Gutsy [a] has it then you could upgrade to gutsy and install the package you have
Ok so i'll give MJR's route a try! a] dpkg -l | grep libc6 gave j@j-desktop:~$ dpkg -l | grep libc6 ii libc6 2.5-0ubuntu14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libc6-dev 2.5-0ubuntu14 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea ii libc6-i686 2.5-0ubuntu14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimi b] installed sudo aptitude install devscripts build-essential fakeroot c] fetched the source downloaded vym_1.10.0.orig.tar.gz d] extracted to desktop the folder vym-1.10.0 the next stage i didn't follow "build-dep" james