Problem upgrading to libc6 2.5-9 amd64
I ran into this problem when trying to do my weekly aptitude upgrade
on an AMD64 system running Lenny:
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Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 (using .../archives/
libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package gtk-qt-
engine
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dev:
libc6-dev depends on libc6 (= 2.5-9); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13.
dpkg: error processing libc6-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales:
locales depends on glibc-2.5-1; however:
Package glibc-2.5-1 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of binutils:
binutils depends on libc6 (>= 2.5-5); however:
Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13.
dpkg: error processing binutils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc6-dev
locales
binutils
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Is this just a transient condition, or do I have a problem? Should I
be reporting a bug?
-Ped
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