Hi

I was fiddling about trying to install some pkgs from source and I upgraded libc6 from 2.3.2(sarge) to 2.3.6(sid - i think). I forced dpkg to do it. Anyway now I have some broken pkgs, when I try to fix them with: apt-get -f install or with synaptic. It says that I have to uninstall kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686, the one I'm using, now isn't the kernel-image the pkg that executes, runs the entire operating system. If it is wouldn't it completely break debian?

So how do I fix the broken pkgs without uninstalling the kernel-image?

Here is the output of apt-get -f install:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
alien cvs-buildpackage debhelper dpkg-dev initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4-k7 kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 locales rt2500-source
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 10 to remove and 191 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 91.5MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

If you're running Sarge (Stable), you can't be muddying it up with libraries or programs from other repositories. I don't know why that's so hard to understand. Every week someone reports that an outside update broke Sarge. Of course it did. Sarge should be updated only from backports.org. Unless you are running a mission critical server or production unit, you should be using Etch (testing) anyway. If you are using Xfree86 for your Xwindows server, be sure you have a backup of critical data before you upgrade.

thats real helpful mate