sarge to etch upgrade failed with unmet dependencies

[Tom Brown <brown@esteem.com>]

Hi,

I tried to uprade a dev server to etch today. The upgrade erred out on mysql 
upgrades. I'm told I might want to run 'apt-get -f install'. I've played with 
the force option before with bad results. Why are the libs that mysql depends 
on not upgraded first? Would it be a better idea to uninstall mysql, do the 
upgrade, then install the latest mysql? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libmysqlclient15-dev: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.2.ds1-22 is 
installed
  libmysqlclient15off: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.2.ds1-22 is 
installed
  mysql-client-5.0: Depends: libdbd-mysql-perl (>= 1.2202) but it is not 
installed
                    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.2.ds1-22 is installed
                    Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12) but 1:3.4.3-13 is 
installed
                    Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5) but 5.4-4 is installed
                    Depends: libreadline5 (>= 5.2) but 5.0-10 is installed
                    Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12) but it is not installed
  mysql-server-5.0: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.2.ds1-22 is installed
                    Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12) but 1:3.4.3-13 is 
installed
                    Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5) but 5.4-4 is installed
                    Depends: libreadline5 (>= 5.2) but 5.0-10 is installed
                    Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12) but it is not installed
                    Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-10) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.



Thanks,
Tom