Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-15) but 2.2-4 is to be installed > E: Sorry, broken packages > >I was curious about the numbers associated to libc6, 2.1.3-15 (which is >in the stable branch) vs 2.2.-4 which is in the testing branch. Now >I remember that some time ago, when I was trying to install balsa, I >installed the version of balsa which was in woody (unstable at that time), and >the libc6 libs where updated in the process. Now I don't have balsa >anymore, I remove it, but I think that something was messed up whith libc6, >perhaps some information regarding woody? I am running potato 2.2.r2, and I >want to keep stick with it. How can I fix it?
If you've installed woody's libc6, you either have to install woody's libc6-dev as well or else downgrade to potato's libc6, not mix and match. You could download the .deb for potato's libc6 and install it with 'dpkg -i'; if balsa is the only thing you installed which depended on woody's libc6 then it should be relatively painless, otherwise you might have to do a bit more work. >I tried to remove libc6 in order to install it again from stable, but a >huge amount of packages will be removed in the process and I am afraid to >mess up even more my system... Do *not* attempt to remove libc6 under any circumstances. :) Downgrade it in place. In general, if you're running stable, be careful about upgrading to individual packages in testing/unstable; make sure you know what packages are going to be upgraded in the process. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
