Package: libc6 Version: 2.1.2 apt and dpkg generate a very pecular error when trying to install libc6. So i'm stuck with 2.1.2-5 and so no other packages will upgrade.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tmh31#apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1368kB of archives. After unpacking 96.3kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 100% [Scanning packages] (Reading database ... 32160 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.2-5 (using .../libc6_2.1.2-7_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... /etc/cron.daily/find has a new format. Consider using the new /etc/cron.daily/find and modifing /etc/updatedb.conf Old versions of /etc/cron.daily/find may not work dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.2-7_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to install (supposed) new info file `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/shlibs': Is a directory Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.2-7_i386.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tmh31#ls /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/shlibs ls: /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/shlibs: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tmh31#uname -a Linux frontier 2.2.12 #4 Tue Oct 5 12:03:48 GMT 1999 i686 unknown Luckily all this doesn't render my system unusable. But it is kind of annoying that I can't use apt because it just complains like so: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tmh31#apt-get install ethereal Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: ethereal: Depends: libpcap0 (>= 0.4-1) but it is not installed gconv-modules: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2-7) but 2.1.2-5 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
