libc6 broken - Can't install any apps - Hardy 8.04

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Sep 15 14:08:08 UTC 2008


David Curtis wrote:

> I believe that all the packages related to glibc, e.g. libc6, are at
> 2.7-10ubuntu3 for 8.04. Which begs the question, did you unwisely enable
> the hardy-proposed repository? Or am I barking up the wrong tree here?

Unwisely?  iirc, when I upgraded, Kubuntu, Adept automatically added
hardy-proposed.
> 
>> If so, how can I downgrade?
> 
> Out of my league, I would assume, that if you have enabled 'proposed'
> and you need to regress to hardy, as you say, 'standard', you're going
> to have to understand apt's capability to 'pin' packages, either

Well, just removing hardy-proposed would probably avoid the issue.


-- 
derek





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