Re: [Fwd: Re: need advice for correct sources.list because of broken packages]

["A.E.Lawrence" <A.E.Lawrence@lboro.ac.uk>]

Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 10:31:33PM +0100, A.E.Lawrence wrote:
>
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >    libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-20) but
> >   2.3.2.ds1-20.0.0.1.pure64 is to be installed
>
>
> Please downgrade your libc6 to the 2.3.2.ds1-20 version.  This
> might require a few other packages to be downgrade at the same
> time.
>
> This should do it think:
> apt-get install libc6=2.3.2.ds1-20 locales=2.3.2.ds1-20 base-files=3.1.2

I don't know if the above would have fixed the problem because meanwhile 
I tried a re-installation from another cdrom. It seems that the
   sid-amd64-netinst.iso   of  11/2/2005  (from the date on the files)
is the culprit Several bootssraps from that image resulted in the 
depency problem.

I have now installed from a recent
  sarge-amd64-netinst.iso
and everything was fine (modulo some unconnected problems of scsi disc 
enumeration and pata discs being disabled).

So if anyone has the same problem in future and finds this message in 
the archives, try a different installation image.

Sorry if this should have branched off into a new thread...

Thank you to everyone who helped: it saved time by eliminating many 
possibilities.

Adrian Lawrence