Hello all. I am experiencing a dependency problem with testing distribution. Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
I am trying to upgrade my potato distro to get the latest KDE. after I type apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, here is my error message: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back aalib1 abbrowser adduser apt ark automake base-config base-passwd bash bc binutils bsdmainutils bsdutils bzip2 cdparanoia console-data console-tools console-tools-libs cpio cpp cron cupsys cvs dc debconf dhcp-client docbook docbook-xml dpkg e2fsprogs ed eject elvis-tiny eperl esound fbset fdutils fileutils findutils freetype2 ftp g++ gaim-gnome gcc gcd gcombust gdk-imlib1 gettext gettext-base gftp gnapster gnome-bin gnome-gv gnome-utils gnuplot gpm grep grip groff grub gs gsfonts hostname imagemagick imlib1 info isapnptools ispell jade kab karm kcalc kcharselect kchart kcron kdebase kdebase-libs kdelibs-dev kdelibs3 kdepasswd kdepim-libs kdevelop kdf kdm kedit kfind kghostview khexedit kiconedit killustrator kivio kjots kmail knewsticker knotes koffice-libs konqueror konsole konverse korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpaint kpm kpresenter kspread ksysctrl ksysv ktimemon kuser kview kword less lesstif1 libart2 libarts libarts-dev libarts-mpeglib libasound1 libaudiofile-dev libaudiofile0 libbonobo2 libbz2 libbz2-dev libc6 libc6-dev libcdparanoia0 libdb2 libdb2-util libdbi-perl libesd0 libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libgdbmg1 libggi2 libgii0 libgmp2 libgnome32 libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtkxmhtml1 libhdf4g libhtml-parser-perl libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libkmid libkmid-dev libkonq3 liblcms liblcms-dev libldap2 liblockfile1 libmagick5 libmikmod2 libmime-base64-perl libmimelib1 libminimagick5 libmng-dev libmng1 libmpeg1 libncurses5 libnet-perl libnewt0 liboaf0 libogg0 libole2-0 libopenldap1 libpam-modules libpam0g libpaperg libpcap0 libpisock3 libpng2 libpng2-dev libpopt0 libqt-dev libqt2 libqutil1 libreadline4 librep9 libsasl-dev libsasl7 libsp1 libstdc++2.10-dev libtiff3g libtiff3g-dev liburi-perl libvncauth0 libvorbis0 libwrap0 libwww-perl libzvt2 lilo lockfile-progs login lynx make man-db mawk mbr memprof modutils mount nano ncurses-bin netbase nmap noatun ntpdate nvi parted passwd patch pciutils perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.004-doc perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-base pidentd pixie ppp procps psmisc pump python-base quanta reiserfsprogs rep samba-common sawfish sawfish-gnome screen scrollkeeper secpolicy sed setserial sgml-base sgml-data shellutils slang1 smbfs sysklogd syslinux sysvinit tar tasksel tcl8.0 tcl8.2 tcpd tcpdump telnet textutils tix41 tk8.0 tkcvs traceroute uic update util-linux vflib2 vncserver wget whiptail whois xaw3dg xawtv xbase-clients xchat-common xchat-gnome xfonts-100dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xfs xlib6g xlib6g-dev xscreensaver xserver-common xserver-s3 zlib1g zlib1g-dev 34 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 287 not upgraded. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: debianutils: PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) but 2.1.3-18 is to be installed E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Is there something that I'm doing wrong. Should I try a different site to pull the update from ? debian:/etc/apt# dpkg -l libc6 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==================-==================-==================================================== ii libc6 2.1.3-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
