[SGVLUG] apt-get troubles

Tue May 29 15:09:49 PDT 2012

My goal right now is to fix the packages, so if I restart everything is
okay. Upgrading I can take care of later, and backing up everything now.

I've updated my apt sources to use:
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted

So that apt-get update will retrieve all the packages, and now when I
run "apt-get -f install", it wants to remove everything, so libc6 likely
is the problem? And should manually dpkg install it again? Here is the
output:

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libgtk2.0-common gcc-4.3-base libx11-data libklibc mysql-common
klibc-utils linux-libc-dev autotools-dev libgsf-1-common xdg-utils
libthai-data x11-common libconfig-inifiles-perl dbconfig-common
  busybox-initramfs
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gcc-4.3-base
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  adduser apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-prefork-dev apache2-utils
apache2.2-common apt apt-utils aptitude autoconf automake1.4 awstats
base-files bash bash-completion binutils bsdmainutils bzip2
  checkinstall comerr-dev courier-authdaemon courier-authlib
courier-authlib-userdb courier-base courier-imap cpio cron curl
curlftpfs db4.6-util defoma dhcp3-client dhcp3-common dpkg-dev dspam emacs
  emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk emacsen-common expect
ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora file fontconfig fontconfig-config fuse-utils gamin
gcc gcc-4.2 git git-core gnupg gpgv groff-base gsfonts htop icecast2
  ifupdown imagemagick initramfs-tools initscripts iproute iputils-ping
klogd less liba52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libapache2-mod-auth-plain
libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 libapr1-dev libaprutil1
  libaprutil1-dev libapt-pkg-perl libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libatm1
libavcodec-unstripped-52 libavcodec1d libavdevice52 libavfilter0
libavformat1d libavformat52 libavutil-unstripped-49 libavutil1d
  libberkeleydb-perl libbz2-1.0 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6-dev
libcairo2 libcap1 libcroco3 libcupsys2 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls
libcwidget3 libdatrie0 libdb4.6-dev libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
libdbus-1-3
  libdc1394-13 libdc1394-22 libdevel-symdump-perl libdevmapper1.02.1
libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre15
libdspam7 libdspam7-drv-mysql libedit2 liberror-perl libexpat1
  libexpat1-dev libfaac-dev libfaac0 libfaad-dev libfaad0 libfontconfig1
libfreetype6 libfuse2 libgamin0 libgcrypt11 libgd2-xpm libgdbm3 libgif4
libglib2.0-0 libgnutls13 libgomp1 libgpg-error0 libgpmg1
  libgraphviz4 libgsf-1-114 libgsm1 libgtk2.0-0 libhtml-parser-perl
libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libice6 libidn11
libio-multiplex-perl libjasper1 libjpeg62 libkadm55 libkeyutils1
libkrb5-dev libkrb53
  liblcms1 libldap-2.4-2 libldap2-dev liblockfile1 libltdl3 liblzo2-2
libmagic1 libmagick10 libmp3lame0 libmysqlclient15off libncursesw5
libneon27 libnet-cidr-perl libnet-daemon-perl libnet-dns-perl
  libnet-ip-perl libnet-server-perl libnewt0.52 libogg0 liboil0.3
libopencdk10 libopenexr2ldbl libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libperl5.8 libpixman-1-0 libplrpc-perl
libpng12-0 libpopt0
  libpostproc51 libpq-dev libpq5 libraw1394-8 libreadline5 librsvg2-2
librsvg2-bin libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libschroedinger-1.0-0
libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libsm6 libspeex1
  libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libssl0.9.8 libsvn1 libswscale0
libswscale1d libsysfs2 libt1-5 libtasn1-3 libthai0 libtheora0 libtiff4
libtimedate-perl libtool libts-0.0-0 liburi-perl libusb-0.1-4
  libvolume-id0 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libwmf0.2-7 libwrap0
libwww-perl libx11-6 libx264-57 libx264-65 libx264-dev libxau6
libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxdmcp6
libxext6
  libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxml2 libxmu6 libxpm4
libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxslt1.1 libxt6 libxvidcore4 libxvidcore4-dev
links locales localization-config logrotate m4 mailx make man-db mawk
  module-init-tools mtr-tiny mutt mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 nano
net-tools openssh-client openssh-server openssl patch perl perl-modules
php-mode php-pear php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd
  php5-mysql postfix postfix-pcre postgrey procmail procps psmisc python
python2.5 rsync sasl2-bin shtool ssl-cert startup-tasks subversion sudo
sysklogd system-services tcl8.4 tcpd telnet ttf-dejavu
  ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ubuntu-keyring udev unzip upstart
upstart-compat-sysv upstart-logd uuid-dev uuid-runtime vim-common
vim-tiny wget whiptail xclip yasm youtube-dl zip zlib1g-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gcc-4.3-base
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  apt base-files bash libc-bin
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 316 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
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On 05/29/2012 02:34 PM, Braddock Gaskill wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:13:05 -0700, Braydon <ronin at braydon.com> wrote:
>> So I have a VPS with Ubuntu jaunty on it, and have recently run:
> 
> Jaunty is Ubuntu 9.04, which is not a Long Term Support (LTS) release and
> an upgrade to Precise 12.04 LTS would probably fail.
> 
> As far as I understand the only upgrade paths Canonical tests are 10.04
> LTS -> 12.04 LTS and 11.10 -> 12.04 LTS, and they actually recommend NOT
> attempting a 10.04->12.04 until they get the bugs worked out in the next
> minor point release in June.
> 
> I find in general that I'm much better off doing an installation from
> scratch than trying to upgrade.
> 
> -braddock
> 
>>
>> $ apt-get install ca-certificates
>>
>> And with it came a few other packages, and then failed midway through,
>> stating, that I needed to add "lenny" to my sources  (strange because
>> this isn't Debian) and then run a command that I've last in my screen
>> now, to update the kernel.
>>
>> So now when I run:
>>
>> $apt-get -f install
>>
>> I get this message:
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   libc-bin: Breaks: libc6 (< 2.10) but 2.9-4ubuntu6.3 is installed
>>   libc-dev-bin: Depends: libc6 (> 2.15) but 2.9-4ubuntu6.3 is installed
>> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
>> caused by held packages.
>> E: Unable to correct dependencies
>>
>> And I've updated my sources to "precise" (for the latest 12.4 release),
>> and was attempting to update the whole machine.
>>
>> What to do?
>>
>> -Braydon
> 
> !DSPAM:4fc540da172373310585754!
> 

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