It isn't really 'invalid' - I think that update-manager could have given
me a clearer error message so I knew what to do instead of wading
through the error logs and guessing - but it seems right to close this
off.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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My hunch was right. I manually updated my /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the
Gutsy files and then did a forced update of just the gutsy libc6 2.6.1. It let
me do that. Once that was in place, I was able to use update-manager to
update everything.
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update-manager fails to install gutsy
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10060599/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10060600/ProcMaps.txt
** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10060601/ProcStatus.txt
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I think the problem might be that I've managed to install a version of
libc6 that is too new (I have libc6 2.6.1-1+b1). I installed this for a
program I was using, but would be ok reverting to either the feisty fawn
or gutsy gibbon versions (both of which are older), but I can't get
synaptic to
