Did apt-get upgrade and now can't apt-get dist-upgrade

**trubblemaker** · December 4th, 2008

I'm on 2.6.17-13-386. I ment to do a dist-upgrade to 'intrepid'. So I updated my source files and then ran

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Now I can't do

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sudo apt-get upgrade

I get an error:

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E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (1) on libc6

I tried to install libc6 and I get:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libc6: Depends: findutils (>= 4.4.0-2ubuntu2) but 4.2.27-3 is to be installed
  libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.4-1ubuntu12.3) but 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7 is to be installed
  libc6-i686: PreDepends: libc6 (= 2.4-1ubuntu12.3) but 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Needless to say apt-get -f install doesn't work. Anyone got any ideas?

I tried aptitude but it wasn't helpful either.

**meindian523** · December 4th, 2008

Don't do a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.Instead,upgrade to Intrepid through the update manager.dist-upgrade won't work because Ubuntu upgrades need a few files pulled in from different places to correctly upgrade.See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IntrepidUpgrades

EDIT:
Please check your first code box.I think you meant

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

**snowpine** · December 4th, 2008

Hi Trubblemaker,

2.6.17 is 6.10 Edgy, if I'm not mistaken? Frankly I think your best bet is to back everything up and reinstall. There is no good upgrade path from Edgy to Intrepid that I'm aware of.

**jenkinbr** · December 4th, 2008

Actually, I think it's gutsy.

or not! I checked http://packages.ubuntu.com/ and searched for 'kernel' in each section that was availible. It must be Edgy, which no longer exsists in the repositories because it has reached End Of Life.

As suggested by snowpine, you will need to do a fresh reinstall, so be sure to back up everything, then download an intrepid Ibex cd ( http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download/ ), burn it, and install it.

**trubblemaker** · December 4th, 2008

Thanks for the help, I was hoping for another answer...

I *think* my home directory is on a separate partition (and is safe) so I guess I'll just nuke it(my install).

Just in case anyone else stumbles on this I wasn't able to install update-manager-core as it generated the same error as above. Truly I'm in a bad state...