Problem upgrading libc6

[bfmilne@ff.up.pt]

Hi,

I went to check for updates using Synaptic just now and found that I have two
broken packages (libc6-dev and locales). According to synaptic, the solution
for this seems to be to upgrade libc6. However, when I do "apt-get upgrade
libc6" I get a complaint containing the following:

  libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-22) but 2.3.2.ds1-21 is installed
  locales: Depends: glibc-2.3.2.ds1-22

It then suggests that I run "apt-get upgrade -f libc6". This produces the
following bunch of text:

===============================================================
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  cpp-3.3 dash e2fslibs e2fsprogs evolution evolution-data-server1.2
foomatic-gui g++-3.3 g77-3.3 gaim gaim-data gcc-3.3
  gcc-3.3-base gcc-3.3-doc gconf2 gimp gimp-data gnome-bin gnome-cpufreq-applet
gnome-libs-data gnome-media gnupg
  gtk2-engines-pixbuf gucharmap lesstif1 lesstif2 libart2 libblkid1 libc6
libcamel1.2-0 libcomerr2 libebook1.2-3
  libecal1.2-2 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-1 libedataserver1.2-4
libedataserverui1.2-4 libegroupwise1.2-5 libffi2
  libflash-mozplugin libflash0 libg2c0 libg2c0-dev libgconf2-4 libgimp2.0
libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32
  libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgsf-1 libgsf-gnome-1 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-common libgucharmap4 libnewt0.51
  libopenct1 libopenexr2 libpng2 libpt-plugins-v4l2 libss2 libssl0.9.7
libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev libuuid1 libxosd2
  libxrender-dev libxrender1 login lsb-base lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-graphics passwd
portmap python-foomatic python-glade2
  python-gtk2 python-newt python2.3-glade2 python2.3-gtk2 r-cran-mnp render-dev
reportbug rsync whiptail
87 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/61.0MB of archives.
After unpacking 139kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 145446 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 (using .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_amd64.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/lib64', which is also in package lsb-core
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
==============================================================

So there seems to be a problem with libc6, lsb and the /lib64 directory.

Can anyone suggest how I might get around this problem?

Thanks,

Bruce.

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