You can kill this as a bug, as I eventually had to abandon the 
installation and went to Edgy from (downloaded image of) CD.

However, the cause of the trouble is, I think, a mismatch of libraries 
used by Ubuntu and those used in the Gnome project. I've now found that 
I can succeed in building the latest Gnumeric (I'm involved in the 
project constructing test spreadsheets that are useful for any 
spreadsheet processor -- in fact we supply xls to encourage folk to 
actually see the Excel bugs).  What I do now is run plain Debian Testing 
under VM Ware and the builds seem to work OK. While I haven't figured 
out exactly which libraries Ubuntu has substituted or put in a different 
location, I have had to sometimes make some changes after installs. e.g. 
Emelfm needs a symlink to an executable. FYI there have been other 
reports of trouble trying to build Gnome components under Ubuntu and 
similar suspicions about libraries or links.

The upshot of this is that it would be helpful to have a list of the 
differences in libraries of locations from Debian. Perhaps such a list 
already exists, but I haven't found it yet. This is not a bug, but a 
source of bug reports. And I'm sure there are good reasons for the 
changes. In fact, it would also be helpful to know what those reasons 
are -- there are lots of packages that take some work to make function 
together, and sharing the knowledge could save some effort.

Cheers, JN


Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> I understand that you had an unclean system when trying an upgrade (and
> an unofficial repository listed), so I'm rejecting this bug because of
> that. If I've misunderstood, please reopen.
> 
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
>        Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
>

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Could not install libc6_2.4-1ubuntu12_i386.deb
https://launchpad.net/bugs/71521

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