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Rpj
Asked: 2015-01-03 20:22:05 +0800 CST

How do I get past the libc dependency issues on 12.04

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How do I get past the libc dependency issues on 12.04

cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS"


sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
locales
The following packages will be upgraded:
locales
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1654 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3,942 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6,886 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
locales
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of locales:
libc6:i386 (2.19-12) breaks locales (<< 2.19) and is installed.
Version of locales to be configured is 2.13+git20120306-3.
libc6 (2.19-12) breaks locales (<< 2.19) and is installed.
Version of locales to be configured is 2.13+git20120306-3.
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
locales
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

sudo apt-cache policy libc6 locales

libc6:
  Installed: 2.19-12
  Candidate: 2.19-13
  Version table:
     2.19-13 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2.19-12 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.15-0ubuntu10.9 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
     2.15-0ubuntu10 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
locales:
  Installed: 2.13+git20120306-3
  Candidate: 2.19-13
  Version table:
     2.19-13 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2.13+git20120306-3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I have removed debian packages from this list.

sudo apt-cache policy libc6 locales
libc6:
  Installed: 2.19-12
  Candidate: 2.19-12
  Version table:
 *** 2.19-12 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.15-0ubuntu10.9 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
     2.15-0ubuntu10 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
locales:
  Installed: 2.13+git20120306-3
  Candidate: 2.13+git20120306-3
  Version table:
 *** 2.13+git20120306-3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
12.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Problem is appearing because you have added Debian repository( i.e http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/...) in your source list.

    So first remove it from /etc/apt/sources.list

    Then execute following commands in terminal

    • sudo apt-get clean

    • sudo apt-get update

    • sudo apt-get install -f

    It then should solve your problem.

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  2. This will work:

    sudo apt-get autoremove --purge -f

    it will purge all the updates that you have done in the recent past

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