[Staffslug] Now I remember why I'm not a fan of Ubuntu

Hi All Well I managed to get Ubuntu on the Fujitsu Amelo D-7830 I needed to add *acpi=off pnpbios=off* after running all the updates (107 of them) with a hopeful glee like a six year old on Christmas day I started the Beryl install process. 1st up is xgl-server "Go on my son" sudo apt-get install xgl-server Wait for it... apt-get "Get stuffed xgl-server requires libc6 2.4.1 but 2.3.0 is to be installed, unmet dependencies" I know says /me, I'll enable backports, world, universe and anything else I can find. (Mr Bavige sound from Family Fortunes) bhaaaarp bhaaaarp "dependancies" Alright I'll google for it, apparently libc6 is twenty gazillion light years ahead of everyone so Ubuntu thinks its really cool to stick it in the update tree. Maybe I could downgrade but; 1. I don't know how 2. I can't be arsed to learn .deb, dpkg, aptitude and whole deluge of other stuff. 3. Have wasted enough time without sitting on the web for 10 hours trying to find the correct libc6 then struggling with apt/aptitude getting the dam thing installed. I only installed Ubuntu because it has the very latest Beryl stuff but I may go back to being two months behind with Beryl releases and install opensuse instead. Its so much easier with rpm :-p -- Dick Turpin "Stand and deliver!"