On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:30:25PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > task-c-dev: Depends: libc-dev > > E: Sorry, broken packages > > > > > >What is libc-dev? It is not listed in the > >http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/task-c-dev.html page as a > >package related to task-c-dev. > > > >How can I fix this? > > libc6-dev provides libc-dev; try installing that. > > HTH, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Colin (and everyone who wants to help!), I tried to install libc6, and I was unable to install it.... below follows the output: micron:/home/chiappa# apt-get install -f libc6-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: 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? In sources.list I am pointing to stable, so it seems that apt-get install want to install libc6 2.2.3-15 when libc6 2.2-4 is installed in my system, is this correct? How can I go back to the version of libc6 which is in stable? 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... After looking for libc6 in my system with dselect I found that I have installed libc6 2.2-4 indeed... I need to go back to 2.1.3, the version in stable... Thanks in advance for the help! Marcelo