Re: potato/apt error on libc6 PreDepends
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:45:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| trying to get my last potato box up to testing. simply changed the deb
| line in sources.list from stable to testing (deb-src is still unstable),
| and security as well as adrian's 2.4.x kernel deb lines are still on
| stable, as always. then apt-get update'd, but when doing dist-upgrade, i
| get:
|
| Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
| debianutils: PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) but 2.1.3-19 is to be installed
| E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages!
|
| what gives?
$ apt-cache policy libc6
libc6:
Installed: 2.2.4-7
Candidate: 2.2.4-7
Version Table:
*** 2.2.4-7 0
900 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages
95 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.1.3-20 0
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
You've got an old libc and aren't upgrading it yet. I don't know why
(I would have thought dist-upgrade would do it).
-D
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