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So this morning I was downloading the daily updates and noticed that the list of not-upgraded packages was getting pretty big (25 or so) so I figured I might as well do a apt-get dist-upgrade and get those...
Bad idea. Everything is all messed up and now apt is stuck. This is the output I have:
Code:
Engel:/home/war1025# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
locales: Depends: glibc-2.6-1
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
Engel:/home/war1025# apt-get install libc6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.5-9) but 2.6-2 is to be installed
libc6-i386: Depends: libc6 (= 2.5-9) but 2.6-2 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Engel:/home/war1025# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpp-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base libc6 libc6-i386
Suggested packages:
gcc-4.1-locales gcc-4.1-multilib gcc-4.1-doc glibc-doc
Recommended packages:
libmudflap0-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
build-essential g++ g++-4.1 libc6-dev libstdc++6-4.1-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
cpp-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base libc6 libc6-i386
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/11.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 26.2MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 112373 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-i386 2.5-9 (using .../libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-i386 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32', which is also in package lib32z1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Engel:/home/war1025#
So this morning I was downloading the daily updates and noticed that the list of not-upgraded packages was getting pretty big (25 or so) so I figured I might as well do a apt-get dist-upgrade and get those...
Bad idea. Everything is all messed up and now apt is stuck. This is the output I have:
Code:
Engel:/home/war1025# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
locales: Depends: glibc-2.6-1
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
Engel:/home/war1025# apt-get install libc6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.5-9) but 2.6-2 is to be installed
libc6-i386: Depends: libc6 (= 2.5-9) but 2.6-2 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Engel:/home/war1025# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpp-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base libc6 libc6-i386
Suggested packages:
gcc-4.1-locales gcc-4.1-multilib gcc-4.1-doc glibc-doc
Recommended packages:
libmudflap0-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
build-essential g++ g++-4.1 libc6-dev libstdc++6-4.1-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
cpp-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base libc6 libc6-i386
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/11.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 26.2MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 112373 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-i386 2.5-9 (using .../libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-i386 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32', which is also in package lib32z1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Engel:/home/war1025#
What do I do?
dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb to get past the packaging error then dpkg --configure -a to get the unconfigured packages when the error happened after this you might want to try re-installing the packages that were removed if you want/need them installed.
war1025@Engel:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20070628-09:04]/ lenny contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20070628-09:04]/ lenny contrib main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian testing main contrib non-free restricted
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
deb http://debian.beryl-project.org/ etch main
If I run that command its not gonna like... make my system dead, is it? I guess I don't have much to lose either way...
war1025@Engel:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20070628-09:04]/ lenny contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20070628-09:04]/ lenny contrib main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian testing main contrib non-free restricted
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
deb http://debian.beryl-project.org/ etch main
If I run that command its not gonna like... make my system dead, is it? I guess I don't have much to lose either way...
No, it won't. It will simply make the dpkg forget about the past error.
Thanks! I had to install the normal libc6 first, but then I did the command you gave me and it installed that. Then I did another dist-upgrade and it only ended up removing the one file it was going to remove to being with.
Since Etch, you should be using aptitude now not apt-get, and since you are pulling packages from Lenny I would also suggest installing apt-listbugs to check for bugs, or things that will BREAK your system during an update.
aptitude keep-all you must do this the first time to lock in your current package selection
aptitude update
aptitude install apt-listbugs
once you switch to aptitude you should not use apt-get to install or remove packages any more.
Since Etch, you should be using aptitude now not apt-get, and since you are pulling packages from Lenny I would also suggest installing apt-listbugs to check for bugs, or things that will BREAK your system during an update.
aptitude keep-all you must do this the first time to lock in your current package selection
aptitude update
aptitude install apt-listbugs
once you switch to aptitude you should not use apt-get to install or remove packages any more.
Seconded. Here is my experience with a very similar problem.
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