[SGVLUG] apt-get troubles

[Braddock Gaskill]

On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:13:05 -0700, Braydon <ronin at braydon.com> wrote:
> So I have a VPS with Ubuntu jaunty on it, and have recently run:

Jaunty is Ubuntu 9.04, which is not a Long Term Support (LTS) release and
an upgrade to Precise 12.04 LTS would probably fail.

As far as I understand the only upgrade paths Canonical tests are 10.04
LTS -> 12.04 LTS and 11.10 -> 12.04 LTS, and they actually recommend NOT
attempting a 10.04->12.04 until they get the bugs worked out in the next
minor point release in June.

I find in general that I'm much better off doing an installation from
scratch than trying to upgrade.

-braddock

> 
> $ apt-get install ca-certificates
> 
> And with it came a few other packages, and then failed midway through,
> stating, that I needed to add "lenny" to my sources  (strange because
> this isn't Debian) and then run a command that I've last in my screen
> now, to update the kernel.
> 
> So now when I run:
> 
> $apt-get -f install
> 
> I get this message:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libc-bin: Breaks: libc6 (< 2.10) but 2.9-4ubuntu6.3 is installed
>   libc-dev-bin: Depends: libc6 (> 2.15) but 2.9-4ubuntu6.3 is installed
> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
> caused by held packages.
> E: Unable to correct dependencies
> 
> And I've updated my sources to "precise" (for the latest 12.4 release),
> and was attempting to update the whole machine.
> 
> What to do?
> 
> -Braydon