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Shahbaz
Asked: 2012-06-15 08:20:02 +0800 CST

how to find the ppa of a package found in launchpad?

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I am trying to install a program (valgrind) which needs libc6-dbg. On the other hand, I cannot install libc6-dbg because:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   libc6-dbg: Depends: libc6 (= 2.11.1-0ubuntu7) but 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

which means I have a newer version of libc6 installed. However:

sudo apt-get install libc6-dbg=2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2

doesn't find anything. I am guessing I need to add the PPA containing that package, which is where I ran out of luck.

I found the package I need here (my ubuntu is Lucid): https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/libc6-dbg/2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2, however, I can't seem to figure out what I should do to get apt-get to see and install this package.

Help?

10.04

5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    -dbg packages provide debug symbols for programs and libraries provided by the packages that are named like them but without -dbg. (Sometimes they provide debug symbols for a whole group packages, typically whose names start like them without -dbg and then contain more text.)

    In this case, you have libc6 installed (that's a core package without which no Ubuntu system can run), and you want to install libc6-dbg. This must correspond exactly to the installed version of libc6. Getting a separate version of libc6-dbg from a PPA that didn't correspond to the installed version of libc6 would be very bad--it would not be usable.

    As this page indicates, on a Lucid system both libc6 and (if it is installed) libc6-dbg should be at version 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.10. So it looks like you have an old version of libc6 installed (which is possibly vulnerable to well-known security bugs!), for which libc6-dbg may no longer be available.

    Not only do you have an old version of libc6, but your information about what the latest versions of libc6 and libc6-dbg is out of date. Try this to correct it:

    sudo apt-get update

    If you're installing packages on the command-line, you should always run that first (unless you've run it just recently).

    Then run this to upgrade your system's packages (including libc6):

    sudo apt-get upgrade

    Then try again:

    sudo apt-get install libc6-dbg

    If that still doesn't work, check your Software Sources (by going to the Update Manager and clicking the Settings... button at the lower-left corner). Click on the Updates Tab. Make sure that Important security updates (lucid-security) and Recommended updates (lucid-updates) are enabled (checked).

    Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Software Sources window, Updates tab

    That image is taken from these instructions, written by Contributors to the Ubuntu documentation wiki and licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. Content on Ask Ubuntu including this post is also licensed that way. Thus my incorporation of that image is permitted here.

    Then after enabling those software sources, run these commands again:

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

    And then try again:

    sudo apt-get install libc6-dbg
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  2. In general (answering your title question): for searching/adding ppa's you could use Y PPA Manager.

    After adding you update your sources and install the package from source you want...

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  3. You should update your system, for example with

     sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get upgrade

    If that doesn't help make sure you have the security updates enabled.

    The current version of libc6 in Lucid is 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.10, the corresponding libc6-dbg is available from the official software sources.

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  4. It looks like 'libc6-dbg' is the package name, and '=2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2' is the version. Try using

    sudo apt-get install libc6-dbg

    Or use the synaptic package manager.

    These two methods will install a newer version of libc6-dbg. If you have to have the older one, you can download the .deb file for it on the right side of the launchpad page you linked.

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  5. Maybe an update of libc6 and libc6-dbg would help? There are newer versions (with security updates) of both packages available:

    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/libc6/2.11.1-0ubuntu7.10

    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/libc6-dbg/2.11.1-0ubuntu7.10

    I think 2.11.1-0ubuntu7 is not in the repositories anymore.

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

    should solve the problem.

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