Problem Using `apt` After Installing Patch
S4JJ4D opened this issue · comments
Running Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS x86_64.
Before Installation:
$ dpkg-query --show libc6:amd64
libc6:amd64 2.31-0ubuntu9.7
I couldn't find releases for 9.7 version, so I downloaded pre-built packages for ubuntu-focal (version 9.9) and ran the following command:
$ sudo dpkg -i libc6_2.31-0ubuntu9.9.ubuntu.focal.custom_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for ubuntu:
(Reading database ... 456624 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack libc6_2.31-0ubuntu9.9.ubuntu.focal.custom_amd64.deb ...
De-configuring libc6:i386 (2.31-0ubuntu9.7) ...
Unpacking libc6:amd64 (2.31-0ubuntu9.9.ubuntu.focal.custom) over (2.31-0ubuntu9.7) ...
dpkg: error processing package libc6:amd64 (--install):
package libc6:amd64 2.31-0ubuntu9.9.ubuntu.focal.custom cannot be configured because libc6:i386 is at a different version (2.31-0ubuntu9.7)
dpkg: error processing package libc6:i386 (--install):
package libc6:i386 2.31-0ubuntu9.7 cannot be configured because libc6:amd64 is at a different version (2.31-0ubuntu9.9.ubuntu.focal.custom)
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc6:amd64
libc6:i386
After running the previous command and getting those errors, $ dpkg-query --show libc6:amd64 gives the following:
libc6:amd64 2.31-0ubuntu9.9.ubuntu.focal.custom
SIMULINK is running smoothly, but I can't install some packages through apt. For example, I get errors like this:
...
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6 : Breaks: libc6:i386 (!= 2.31-0ubuntu9.9.ubuntu.focal.custom) but 2.31-0ubuntu9.7 is to be installed
libc6:i386 : Breaks: libc6 (!= 2.31-0ubuntu9.7) but 2.31-0ubuntu9.9.ubuntu.focal.custom is to be installed
libc6-dbg : Depends: libc6 (= 2.31-0ubuntu9.7) but 2.31-0ubuntu9.9.ubuntu.focal.custom is to be installed
libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.31-0ubuntu9.7) but 2.31-0ubuntu9.9.ubuntu.focal.custom is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
Is there any way I could fix this?
@S4JJ4D What you will probably need to do is ALSO install the pre-built versions of libc6:i386, libc6-dbg, etc. Once you install one of these (i.e. the original libc6) all the others will need to match. One possible way to do this is to download the tar.gz of all packages and install all of them in one go with dpkg
To be completely honest I don't know what will happen against ubuntu9.7 (rather than ubuntu9.9) - this is the focal-security "pocket" rather than the focal-update "pocket" and doesn't acquire other possible updates from ubuntu. It looks like the version strings match but I can't tell you what patches are applied in "security" as opposed to "update" and there may be drift between these.
Thanks for your reply.
I installed all pre-built packages and then ran apt --fix-broken install in the hope that it does some clean-up. I also did some other tinkering (I should have been more careful) after I got errors when I was trying to install some other new tools using apt. It seemed to have resolved the issue but I could no longer boot into ubuntu after I restarted the system.
Anyway, I erased my ubuntu partition and installed ubuntu 22.04.
So the 'apt' problem is not fixed literally.