remove packages

[Tom H]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Richard Gliebe <richard.gliebe at fhv.at> wrote:
> On 11/23/10 9:33 PM C de-Avillez wrote:


>> (in Maverick, 'apt-cache rdepends libc6' lists 14k packages... in
>> other words, a good portion of what we ship.)

Which makes using a Lenny libc6 weird (to say the least).


> # dpkg -i  libc6-dev_2.7-18lenny6_i386.deb
> ...
>  libc6-dev depends on linux-libc-dev; however:
>   Package linux-libc-dev is not configured yet.
> ...

> # dpkg -i libc6_2.7-18lenny6_i386.deb
> ...
> A non-dpkg owned copy of the libc6-i686 package was found.
> It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation;
> please remove that copy of the C library and try again.
> ...

You need to install "linux-libc-dev".

What's the output of
dpkg --audit
apt-cache show libc6
apt-cache show libc6-dev
apt-cache policy libc6
apt-cache policy libc6-dev

Are you running Hardy?