Cannot get this virtual package right!

["David A. Cobb" <Superbiskit@cox.net>]

I currently am running kernel-2.6.7-1 and I've slowly brought many key 
components up to the bleeding edge.
I have apt at 0.6.25

I keep getting
(aptitude, and others) depends on "libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3; however:
 Package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3 is not installed."

I googled the site, and find that this is a virtual package and that it 
caused a batch of problems a while back;
also that it should be provided by apt-utils.  I did not get any errors 
listed when I installed from <apt-utils_0.6.25_i386.deb>.

Please, what do I need to do to get this library to show up??  There is, 
evidently, a shared-object library by the same name that I should have 
but do not. 


--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!



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