Ah, I've hit dependency hell! I thought I'd try and downgrade the dependencies. Turns out libc6 is one of them. So I though I'd try and build the missing packages from source using the deb-src repository. After various steps, that turns out I need to compile the compilers unless I change the libc6 version. I'm thinking I might shift all my php code over to a nice fresh Ubuntu box. It was all in a svn system anyway so apart from setting up the database again I should be able to get it back and running again. Are there any other options here - nudge the developers build a version that plays nice. Or download the packages, open them up using ar, adjust the dependencies to match and hope for the best? Cheers, Chris On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:54:06 +1200, mailinglist wrote:

Hello All,

Again, I'm trying to get this vmware server going that has preconfigured wiki set running on it. However, I'm adding some extensions.

For that I need to install some additional programs off the debian repositories.

I'm finding I cannot install 1) ocaml 2) nscd

because of dependency conflicts. Now, I don't know what software the original person who configured this machine did but it there anyway of running a comparison of the installed software to what is on the repositories. And/or similary is there way get around the following error.

How do you resolve this one?

wikiserver:~# apt-get install nscd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: default-jre-headless : Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= 6b14) but it is not going to be installed nscd : Depends: libc6 (> 2.11) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libc6 (< 2.12) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages wikiserver:~# dpkg-query -l libc6 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |

Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description

+++-=============================================-=============================================-========================================================================================================== ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries wikiserver:~#

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