ubuntu-base removed

[Joe Potter]

Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:03:03 -0500, Jad <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
>>Try
>>sudo apt-get install -f
>>as -f means   *-f  Attempt to continue if the integrity check fails
>>*
> 
> 
> Same thing: 
> 
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   ubuntu-base: Depends: libc6-i686 but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 

I have the same here on a AMD k-7 box. The last dist-upgrade removed 
lib6-i686 which took out ubuntu-base.

The box works just fine, I do not think Ubuntu-base was needed. Can you 
live without it?


Regards, Joe