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

[Rick Knight]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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, Thanks for the reply.

I think you're right about Adept automatically adding hardy-proposed. I 
know I didn't add it, and all of my Kubunty Hardys have it in 
/etc/apt/sources.list.

I removed hardy-proposed from /etc/apt/sources.list and then ran sudo 
apt-get update and that seems to have solved most of my problems. I 
still have one app I can't add (gramofile) on this system. I get a 
dependency error.

fftw2 depends on libmpich1.0gf which is not going to be installed.
E: Broken packages.

When I try to install libmpich1.0gf I get a similar message about 
libgfortran2. When I try to install libgfortran2 I get another similar 
message about gcc-4.2-base. When I try to install gcc-4.2-base I get a 
message saying its already at the newest version 4.2. How can I tell 
where the problem is. What might be preventing me from installing this 
application.

Gramofile installed fine on my other 2 Kubuntu hardy systems. fftw2 was 
already installed.

Thanks,
Rick