Jenny:
Oh dear. Too late. I hope I haven't screwed masses of stuff up now.
Hopefully not, as testing is fairly good right now, as it's preparing for release. Try to RTFM next time ;-)
What i'm after is an odbc driver
I have unixodbc for stable with Postgres 6 somewhere around, I think, or I can try to build one for PG7.1, or maybe even iodbc, if it helps. How that fits in which PHP is probably best dealt with by someone who knows more PHP sysadmin things. If any of them are use, just let me know.
What I then was trying to install was rpm 4.0.2-18 from the testing; this is what was requiring the unmet dependencies. Would a working copy not requiring bunches of weird stuff be a possibility?
No, you'll probably need to upgrade parts of your system to testing in some way. You could either go the whole hog and just flip "stable" to "testing" in there, or you could add a deb-src line for "stable", do "apt-get -b source packagename" and see if it builds for you.
Richard K wrote:
Update libdb2 as well; libdb3 only conflicts with earlier versions of it. Under "testing":
.....I tried this too, but libdb3 still wouldn't install.
Now that is strange...