Hi! My name is Demetrius Stanton. It was suggested that I reach out for a problem I'm experiencing trying to install gdb on my system. I'm willing to submit whatever information is necessary to try and get this issue resolved.
I recently encountered a weird error, and I can't seem to find a fix online. When I run the command ` sudo apt update && sudo apt install gdb -y `, I receive an 404 error stating failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.36-9%2bdeb12u*4*_amd64.deb. When I navigate to the https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/ site, I'm able to find libc6-dbg_2.36-9+deb12u*7*_amd64.deb. Though I'm reasonably confident I could use wget to download and then dpkg to install this file, I am concerned I could adversely affect the stability of my system. I'm sure it would be safer for me to use apt to manage my packages. How do I proceed forward from here? I posed this question to <debian-rele...@lists.debian.org> and received the following in response: " Welcome to Debian. You might be able to resolve this issue you have by running sudo apt update followed by sudo apt full-upgrade and resolve resulting errors, if any occur, and then try reinstalling gdb. The particular error - attempting to fetch and install what looks like an out of date version of libc6-dbg_2.36-9 - suggests your system might not be fully up to date. If that helps, good; otherwise: You would do better to ask this question on the debian-user list ( debian-user@lists.debian.org). It is a fairly active list that includes people with a wide range of knowledge and who generally are willing to help. You should provide additional information (and will be asked to do so if you do not), since what you give above is a bit sketchy. In particular, I suggest you include in the question a copy of your /etc/apt/sources.list and any files that are in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d. It might also be useful to include a copy of your /etc/debian_version and /etc/os-release files, which will establish the exact update level of your system. In general, it is probably a bad idea to poke around in /debian/pool/ in the distribution repository for things to install. Those directories contain software for several releases and mixing versions from different releases may, as you suspect, result in an unstable system. Using apt is much safer, but depends on correct setup of the files in the /etc/apt/ directory that describe the range of software installed. Regards, <redacted> " Attempting the prescribed fix yielded the following: $ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade [sudo] password for demetrius: Hit:1 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Hit:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease Hit:3 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease Hit:4 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. N: Repository 'Debian bookworm' changed its 'firmware component' value from 'non-free' to 'non-free-firmware' N: More information about this can be found online in the Release notes at: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.html#non-free-split Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. $ sudo apt install gdb -y Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libbabeltrace1 libboost-regex1.74.0 libc6-dbg libdebuginfod-common libdebuginfod1 libipt2 libsource-highlight-common libsource-highlight4v5 Suggested packages: gdb-doc gdbserver The following NEW packages will be installed: gdb libbabeltrace1 libboost-regex1.74.0 libc6-dbg libdebuginfod-common libdebuginfod1 libipt2 libsource-highlight-common libsource-highlight4v5 0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 7,458 kB/12.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 28.4 MB of additional disk space will be used. Err:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libc6-dbg amd64 2.36-9+deb12u4 404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:d::644 443] E: Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.36-9%2bdeb12u4_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:d::644 443] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? So now I'm reaching out. Here's the info that was recommended I add: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.2.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20231007-10:29]/ bookworm main non-free-firmware deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib $ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ brave-browser-release.list google-chrome.list vscode.list $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost. deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost. deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main $ cat /etc/debian_version 12.5 $ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)" VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"; If there's anything you can suggest to help, it would be greatly appreciated! Demetrius Stanton
