Package dependency problems

[Nils Kassube]

Sabniveesu Shashank wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > Thank you for reading my first posting to this list.
> > 
> > Any attempt to install any package is prevented because of a list of
> > dependencies.
> > 
> > It has been suggested that I post the output of dpkg --configure -a
> > and this is the result:
> > 
> > phil at Asus:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
> > 
> > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6:i386:
> >  libc6:i386 depends on debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however:
> >   Package debconf is not installed.
> >   Package debconf-2.0 is not installed.
> >  
> >  libc6:i386 depends on libgcc1; however:
> >   Package libgcc1 is not installed.
> > 
> > dpkg: error processing libc6:i386 (--configure):
> >  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> > 
> > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of multiarch-
support:
> >  multiarch-support depends on libc6 (>= 2.13-5); however:
> >   Package libc6:i386 is not configured yet.
> > 
> > dpkg: error processing multiarch-support (--configure):
> >  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> > 
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  libc6:i386
> >  multiarch-support
> > 
> > Is this a known problem?
> > 
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Phil
> > 
> > --
> 
> Use 'sudo apt-get install -f'. Restart your system. This should solve
> any missing/broken packages
> 
> As for the reason, It depends on what you recently installed and
> incompletely uninstalled..

No, that is unfortunately not the solution - I had suggested that 
command previously (on Kubuntu-users) and it didn't work either. The 
problem is the missing debconf package which seems to be vital to 
install anything. It seems like Phil has the problem that he can't 
install debconf because debconf is missing.


Nils