Re: Broken package requires installation of already installedpackage

[Kent West <kent.west@infotech.acu.edu>]

At 10:56 AM 3/10/1999 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
>Kent West wrote:
>
>> I've got a hamm system: my /etc/apt/sources.list is pointing to
>> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
>>
>> I've recently run apt-get upgrade, and now when I go to dselect and do the
>> Install option, I get the error:
>>
>> Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet
>> dependencies:
>>   libc6-dev: Depends:libc6
>>
>> When I try to install libc6-dev, I get the same error message. When I try
>> to install libc6, I get the message: "Sorry, libc6 is already the newest
>> version".
>>
>> I had to do some manual downloading of libs, etc in order to get apt
>> installed on this hamm system; I suspect that's what's causing the problem.
>> But how do I fix it?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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>apt-get -f install should be able to handle this....

Thanks, but nope. "apt-get -f install" just says 0 upgraded, 0 newly
installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded, 3 packages not fully installed
or removed.

"apt-get -f install libc6" says the same "sorry, depends libc6" message as
above.