Re: Pre-Depend error from apt

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:
> 
> I accidentally hosed the /var partition on a friend's Debian box. In
> trying to repair the damage, I started getting the message "E: Internal
> Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend" from both apt-get and dselect.
> 
> Can anyone enlighten me as to how to get apt/dselect working again?
> Thanks!

I may have another clue. It looks like libc6 depends on debianutils, and
debianutils depends on libc6. Anyone know how I get around this?

Thanks!