unmet dependencies

Hello All,

I cannot install anything on my Debian system, because of the following :

# apt-get install locales
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:
 libc-dev-bin : Depends: libc6 (< 2.12) but 2.13-20ubuntu5.1 is to be installed
 libc6 : Depends: libc-bin (= 2.13-20ubuntu5.1) but it is not going to be installed
 libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.11.3-2) but 2.13-20ubuntu5.1 is to be installed
 locales : Depends: glibc-2.11-1
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

And when I try to install it using the .deb file, I get :

# dpkg -i libc6_2.11.3-2_amd64.deb 
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: 1 expected program not found in PATH or not executable.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.

Could you please help me on this please ?

PS.
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20120128-13:42]/ squeeze main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20120128-13:42]/ squeeze main

deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

The problem is that you are trying to manually install an Ubuntu package rather than installing from the Debian Squeeze repos using aptitude, apt-get, synaptic, etc.

apt-get -f install
apt-get update
apt-get install libc6

thank you snowpine for the quick reply,
i google for that and i am afraid of doing that as this is what comes up, is there any chance that i lose any settings configured on this box as many users use it? :

# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  iso-codes discover-data libx11-data libklibc klibc-utils xkb-data libavahi-common-data console-terminus vim-runtime linux-libc-dev manpages-dev mysql-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  acpi acpi-support-base acpid adduser apt apt-listchanges apt-utils aptitude at base-files base-passwd bash bash-completion bc bind9 bind9-host bind9utils binutils bsd-mailx bsdmainutils bsdutils build-essential busybox
  bzip2 console-setup coreutils cpio cpp cpp-4.4 cron dash dbus dc debconf debconf-i18n debian-archive-keyring debianutils diffutils discover dmidecode dmsetup dnsutils dpkg dpkg-dev e2fslibs e2fsprogs expat fakeroot file
  findutils ftp g++ g++-4.4 gcc gcc-4.4 gettext-base gnupg gpgv grep groff-base grub-common grub-pc gzip host hostname ifupdown info initramfs-tools initscripts insserv install-info iproute iptables iputils-ping
  isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common kbd keyboard-configuration laptop-detect less libacl1 libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libattr1 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common3 libbind9-60 libblkid1
  libboost-iostreams1.42.0 libbsd0 libbz2-1.0 libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libcap2 libcomerr2 libcups2 libcwidget3 libdb4.6 libdb4.7 libdb4.8 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdbus-1-3 libdevmapper1.02.1 libdiscover2 libdns69
  libdpkg-perl libedit2 libept1 libevent-1.4-2 libexpat1 libexpat1-dev libfile-copy-recursive-perl libfreetype6 libgc1c2 libgcc1 libgcrypt11 libgdbm3 libgeoip1 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libgmp3c2 libgnutls26 libgomp1
  libgpg-error0 libgpgme11 libgpm2 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssglue1 libgssrpc4 libhtml-template-perl libidn11 libisc62 libisccc60 libisccfg62 libk5crypto3 libkadm5clnt-mit7 libkadm5srv-mit7 libkdb5-4 libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3
  libkrb5support0 libldap-2.4-2 liblocale-gettext-perl liblockfile1 liblwres60 liblzma2 libmagic1 libmpfr4 libmysqlclient-dev libmysqlclient16 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnet-daemon-perl libnewt0.52 libnfnetlink0 libnfsidmap2
  libopts25 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpci3 libpcre3 libperl5.10 libplrpc-perl libpopt0 libpq5 libpth20 libreadline5 libreadline6 librpcsecgss3 libsasl2-2 libselinux1 libsepol1 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libslang2
  libsqlite3-0 libss2 libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.4-dev libtalloc2 libtasn1-3 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libtimedate-perl libtokyocabinet8 libudev0 libusb-0.1-4 libuuid-perl
  libuuid1 libwbclient0 libwrap0 libx11-6 libxapian22 libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxml2 libxmuu1 linux-base linux-image-2.6-amd64 linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 login logrotate lsb-base lsof lvm2 m4 make man-db mawk mc
  mlocate module-init-tools mount mutt mysql-client mysql-client-5.1 mysql-server mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server-core-5.1 nano ncurses-bin net-tools netbase netcat-traditional nfs-common nfs-kernel-server ntp openssh-blacklist
  openssh-client openssh-server openssl passwd patch pciutils perl perl-base perl-modules portmap postfix procmail procps psmisc python python-apt python-apt-common python-central python-minimal python-reportbug
  python-support python2.6 python2.6-minimal readline-common reportbug rsyslog samba samba-common sed sgml-base shared-mime-info ssl-cert sudo sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils tar tasksel tasksel-data tcpd telnet texinfo time
  traceroute tzdata ucf udev update-inetd usbutils util-linux vim vim-common vim-tiny w3m wamerican wget whiptail whois xauth xml-core xz-utils zlib1g zlib1g-dev
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  apt libc6 (due to apt) libgcc1 (due to apt) libstdc++6 (due to apt) zlib1g (due to apt) debian-archive-keyring (due to apt) gnupg (due to apt) base-files base-passwd bash debianutils (due to bash) dash (due to bash)
  libncurses5 (due to bash) bsdutils coreutils libacl1 (due to coreutils) libattr1 (due to coreutils) libselinux1 (due to coreutils) dpkg (due to dash) diffutils libbz2-1.0 (due to dpkg) xz-utils (due to dpkg) e2fsprogs
  e2fslibs (due to e2fsprogs) libblkid1 (due to e2fsprogs) libcomerr2 (due to e2fsprogs) libss2 (due to e2fsprogs) libuuid1 (due to e2fsprogs) util-linux (due to e2fsprogs) findutils install-info (due to findutils) grep gzip
  hostname login libpam0g (due to login) libpam-runtime (due to login) libpam-modules (due to login) mount libsepol1 (due to mount) ncurses-bin perl-base sed sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) sysv-rc (due to sysvinit)
  sysvinit-utils (due to sysvinit) tar lsb-base (due to util-linux) tzdata (due to util-linux) debconf (due to util-linux) libslang2 (due to util-linux)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 298 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 562 MB disk space will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
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Abort.

Yup, that looks pretty bad. My advice is to wait for advice from one of our resident Debian experts like craigevil.

Remove any Ubuntu packages you installed.

Also check your sources.list, at one point you either added Ubuntu repos or manually installed Ubuntu packages.

Do not install Ubuntu packages on Debian unless you want a broken system.


At this point your system is broken you would probably be better off reinstalling.

That was fast!

Thank you All,

the case is that I installed manually Ubuntu packages (it was morning with no clear mind at all),
because I didn't had any connection to the Internet, now I am using a proxy by ssh-tunneling.

How can I see the installed ubuntu packages ?

Many Thanks.

* libc was for sure

ok, found it

the issue is now that when i am trying to remove the packages, i get the following :

# dpkg -r libc-bin
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable.
dpkg: 1 expected program not found in PATH or not executable.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.

how can i surpass this ?

this looks very promisising : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-libc6-176619/