Package dependency problems

[Sabniveesu Shashank]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Thank you for reading my first posting to this list.
>
> Any attempt to install any package is prevented because of a list of
> dependencies.
>
> It has been suggested that I post the output of dpkg --configure -a and
> this is the result:
>
> 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
>
> Is this a known problem?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Phil
>
> --


Use 'sudo apt-get install -f'. Restart your system. This should solve any
missing/broken packages

As for the reason, It depends on what you recently installed and
incompletely uninstalled..
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