Dependency problems - part 2

[Nils Kassube]

Phil wrote:
> phil at Asus:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6:i386:
>   libc6:i386 depends on debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however:
>    Package debconf is not installed.
>    Package debconf-2.0 is not installed.
>   libc6:i386 depends on libgcc1; however:
>    Package libgcc1 is not installed.
> 
> dpkg: error processing libc6:i386 (--configure):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of multiarch-support:
>   multiarch-support depends on libc6 (>= 2.13-5); however:
>    Package libc6:i386 is not configured yet.
> 
> dpkg: error processing multiarch-support (--configure):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   libc6:i386
>   multiarch-support
> 
> 
> Does this help? And, of course, debconf cannot be installed because
> it's one of the dependents that has been preventing me from
> installing other packages.

At least it doesn't help me to determine what could be done. It is quite 
strange that debconf is missing on your machine. I tried to uninstall it 
on the 13.04 system, but I was warned that it would remove many vital 
packages, therefore I didn't proceed. So I can't find out what would 
work for you, but you could try to download the debconf package from 
packages.ubuntu.com and install it with the command

sudo dpkg -i FILENAME

where you replace FILENAME with the filename of the downloaded package. 
But I'm not so sure it would work.

Maybe someone else on this list has a better idea?

If that doesn't help, I would suggest to ask on the ubuntu-users list 
[1]. I think there are some people much more familiar than me with the 
packing system. And please provide the output of the command "sudo dpkg 
--configure -a" like above if you ask there.


Nils

[1] <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users>