Gregory Guthrie wrote:
  >

[using Eudora for Windows: please turn off HTML output]

  >I am running Debian 2.0, upgraded from ... (libc5), and trying to upgrade 
  >to 2.1.
  >
  >When I do an apt-get upgrade, it complains that:
  >     "Sorry, but the following packages are broken.."
  >
  >and halts. When I try to repair the problems using dselect, I cannot seem 
  >to get out of a circle which won't let me remove the broken ones, nor 
  >configure them, due to dependencies. Probably there is some correctness to 
  >what it reports, but it feels like I am "stuck in a maze of twisty-truney 
  >passages, which all look alike"!  :-)
  >
  >It all seems to start with libpam-util; Details attached.
  >Any help is greatly appreciated.

Have you tried running `apt-get -f install'?  If so, what happened?

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