Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.2.ds1-18 Severity: important can't upgrade libc6, it sounds conflict with base-files. my base-files version is: 3.1.0.0.1.pure64
$ sudo aptitude install libc6 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages have been kept back: [snip] The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 424 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/4318kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 43197 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 (using .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package base-files Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dev: libc6-dev depends on libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-22); however: Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.2.ds1-18. dpkg: error processing libc6-dev (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales: locales depends on glibc-2.3.2.ds1-22; however: Package glibc-2.3.2.ds1-22 is not installed. dpkg: error processing locales (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6-dev locales Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-9-amd64-k8 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages libc6 depends on: ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl -- no debconf information -- LI Daobing