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Description

When trying to run "apt-get install libc6-dev" on Debian, you get the following error message after the "Preconfiguring packages ..." message:
"dpkg: regarding .../libc-bin_2.9-25_i386.deb containing libc-bin:
package uses Breaks; not supported in this dpkg
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc-bin_2.9-25_i386.deb (--unpack):
unsupported dependency problem - not installing libc-bin
dpkg: regarding .../archives/libc6_2.9-25_i386.deb containing libc6:
package uses Breaks; not supported in this dpkg
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.9-25_i386.deb (--unpack):
unsupported dependency problem - not installing libc6
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc-bin_2.9-25_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.9-25_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"

Solution

Update dpkg to the latest version, you can do it with the following command:
apt-get install dpkg

Affected software:

Linux 2.6.x

Comments:

Comment #1 from Homer [Username: Guest] at 28/02/2011 00:22

Not if the new dpkg deb uses breaks. Doh!

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