Hello all, I don't know if this is specific from debian amd64 , but I'll post here. I apologize if I'm wrong.
I'm running debian etch (stable), and I would like to update to testing, because there exists some software versions I need. For that I updated the sources.list file and try to update, by using the command aptitude dist-upgrade -u (of course I have done previously `aptitude update`) After, it appeared the following error (Reading database ... 187234 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 (using .../archives/libc6_2.6-2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.6-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package virtualbox Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.6-2_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dev: libc6-dev depends on libc6 (= 2.6-2); however: Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13. dpkg: error processing libc6-dev (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-i386: libc6-i386 depends on libc6 (= 2.6-2); however: Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13. dpkg: error processing libc6-i386 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales: locales depends on glibc-2.6-1; however: Package glibc-2.6-1 is not installed. dpkg: error processing locales (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of binutils: binutils depends on libc6 (>= 2.6-1); however: Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13. dpkg: error processing binutils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6-dev libc6-i386 locales binutils Then I try to update the libc6 alone and the error was the same. What can I do to update my system? Thanks in advance Pedro Sousa
