[wplug] debian package questions.

[John Harrold]

ok, im trying to compile the kernel and i keep getting weird errors about
missing libraries.

while running 'make xconfig' i get this:

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gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o
tkparse.c
tkparse.c:48: stdio.h: No such file or directory
tkparse.c:49: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
tkparse.c:50: string.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [tkparse.o] Error 1
--------------------------------------------------------------------

now stdio.h is a pretty standard library, so i figured it would find the
package and install it. it appeared that it was in libc6-dev so i thought
that was easy enough so i tried to install the libc6-dev package and i got
this error:

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Unpacking libc6-dev (from .../libc6-dev_2.2.3-4_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-4_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rpcgen', which is also in package netbase
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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now i am pretty confused. i cannot uninstall netbase, since it is required
for most networking purposes. i am running the 'unstable' tree, so this
may just be a bug. although i think it probably has more to do with my
ignorance. 

can anyone provide some insight?

thanks
john