I just had this problem, it's a pain but you don't have to rebuild your entire system. I think it's a bug but it is too low level for me to characterize very well.
Anyway, this should help (it saved me from having to reinstall): http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0009/msg04260.html krafty Pascal Hos wrote: > Hi, > > I tried installing the kde2 packages from the woody tree into my > potato distribution and it seems to have upgraded the glibc. The > install was faulty otherwise too. Some of the packages couldn't > be configures due to independencies (not sure what failed anymore). > Now I'm trying to get my system back to where it was before but > that seems to be a problem. First of all ldconfig has disappeared > but apt-get tells me that package ldso is installed. Next whenever > I try to do anything with apt-get it now gives me the dependency > problems for glibc versions. > Here is an output of the program: > > mems159:/home/paashaas# apt-get install ldso > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Sorry, ldso is already the newest version > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > abbrowser: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.93) but 2.1.3-10 is to be installed > amor: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.93) but 2.1.3-10 is to be installed > ...... > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages > (or specify a solution). > > I'm not quite sure where to go from here. I someone has a suggestion. > > Thanks, > > Pascal Hos > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null