12.10 upgrade problems

[Sid Boyce]

After the reboot from "upgrade-manager -d" I got errors as below:-
Nothing will install and I have tried removing lines from "File" (forget 
the path_to_File) when it complained of duplicates.
root at sdrbox:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   apt-utils debconf debconf-i18n dpkg libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 
libbz2-1.0 libdb5.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblzma5 libselinux1 
libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl 
libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base tar tzdata zlib1g
Suggested packages:
   xz-utils debconf-doc debconf-utils whiptail dialog gnome-utils 
libterm-readline-gnu-perl libgtk2-perl libnet-ldap-perl libqtgui4-perl 
libqtcore4-perl apt bzip2 ncompress
The following NEW packages will be installed
   apt-utils debconf debconf-i18n dpkg libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 
libbz2-1.0 libdb5.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblzma5 libselinux1 
libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl 
libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base tar tzdata zlib1g
0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/6,763 kB of archives.
After this operation, 23.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed?
debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory
dpkg: regarding .../libgcc1_1%3a4.7.1-7ubuntu1_amd64.deb containing 
libgcc1:amd64, pre-dependency problem:
  libgcc1 pre-depends on multiarch-support
   multiarch-support is unpacked, but has never been configured.

dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.7.1-7ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
  pre-dependency problem - not installing libgcc1:amd64
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.7.1-7ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Internal Error, No file name for libc6

I burned a DVD and verified it ... the image is too large for a CD.
# ls -l /ISO
total 881668
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 902823936 Sep  8 16:02 
kubuntu-12.10-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso

When I boot it up I get a garbled graphic screen so I changed to a VC.
Is there a way to install 12.10 desktop from the command line, I 
couldn't find the command that's used to install kubuntu.
Regards
Sid.

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