Package: apt Version: 0.7.25.3 Severity: normal I want to download the libpcre3-dev for the purpose of installing it on another system. So the fact that I can't install it on my current system shouldn't be a problem. I'm not going to complete the upgrade of libc6 because it requires restarting kdm and I don't want to logout right now.
There is no technical reason why apt-get shouldn't be able to just download a single .deb file and verify the checksum in spite of having problems that might make it impossible to install the package immediately. In fact it would be really convenient if apt-get could be run as non-root for the purpose of downloading packages to be installed on another system. # apt-get -f --download-only install --reinstall libpcre3-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc-dev-bin: Depends: libc6 (> 2.11) but 2.10.2-9 is to be installed libc6: Depends: libc-bin (= 2.10.2-9) but 2.11.1-1 is to be installed libc6-dbg: Depends: libc6 (= 2.11.1-1) but 2.10.2-9 is to be installed libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.11.1-1) but 2.10.2-9 is to be installed libc6-i386: Depends: libc6 (= 2.11.1-1) but 2.10.2-9 is to be installed locales: Depends: glibc-2.11-1 E: Unmet dependencies. 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