dependency problems base-files, libc6
Hi,
since trying to upgrade an existing installation, I´m stuck with some
dependency problem. The dependencies of the base-files package mismatch
the version of the libc6 package. This keeps the libc6 from being
updated, and in turn quite a number of packages remain held back.
The amanda packages have been removed, and I cannot install the newer
versions unless libc6 has been updated. But I need amanda to do all the
backups ...
Things show up as follows:
prometheus:/home/hwilmer# apt-get install amanda
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package amanda is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
amanda-common
E: Package amanda has no installation candidate
prometheus:/home/hwilmer# apt-get install amanda-common amanda-client
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amanda-client: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21) but
2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.2.pure64 is to be installed
amanda-common: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21) but
2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.2.pure64 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
prometheus:/home/hwilmer# apt-get install libc6
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6-dev locales
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
base-files bash foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters
foomatic-filters-ppds hotplug mailx mkrboot
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6 libc6-dev locales
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
base-files bash
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 73 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 28.8MB disk space will be freed.
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prometheus:/home/hwilmer# apt-get install base-files
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
base-files is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 76 not upgraded.
prometheus:/home/hwilmer# aptitude install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
bin86 binutils bsdutils bzip2 cpp-3.3 dash dpkg dselect e2fslibs
e2fsprogs exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light g++-3.3
gcc-3.3 gdb gettext-base gnupg gzip ifupdown kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8
klogd libasn1-6-heimdal libblkid1 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc6-dev libclamav1
libcomerr2 libcurl3 libcurl3-gssapi libexpat1 libfreetype6 libgcc1
libgcrypt11 libgimpprint1 libgnutls11 libgpmg1 libgssapi1-heimdal libice6
libkrb-1-kerberos4kth libkrb5-17-heimdal libldap2 libnss-db
libroken16-kerberos4kth libsm6 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev libtiff4
libuuid1 libx11-6 libxaw7 libxext6 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxt6 locales login
logrotate mount mutt passwd ppp python2.3 quota quotatool samba
samba-common smbclient smbfs sysklogd unzoo util-linux wget whois
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 76 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
How can I fix this?
GH
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