So I've got a VPS and, to be totally honest I have to admit, at some point I did a mess with apt sources and packages. :)
Now I'm trying to get a clean system, almost there, but I still have a little problem : I can't install the package locale.
My system :
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.11 (jessie)
Release: 8.11
Codename: jessie
$ uname -r
2.6.32-042stab130.1
And the problem :
$ apt-get install locales
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
locales : Depends: libc-bin (> 2.19) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
debconf-2.0
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Although it seems I already have the right versions of these packages :
$ apt-cache policy libc-bin
libc-bin:
Installed: 2.25-6
Candidate: 2.25-6
Version table:
*** 2.25-6 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.19-18+deb8u10 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
$ apt-cache policy debconf
debconf:
Installed: 1.5.56+deb8u1
Candidate: 1.5.56+deb8u1
Version table:
*** 1.5.56+deb8u1 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Is there something I'm missing ?!
EDIT : And yes I did try apt-get clean, apt-get autoclean and apt-get -f install. They all seem to execute without any error