Apt giving error --fix-broken not working

[Keith]

On 4/26/24 2:02 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
> 
> 
>     You might try
> 
>     $ sudo apt install --reinstall perl-base
> 
>     and cross your fingers.
> 
>     -- 
>     Keith
> 
> 
> Same thing
> 
> apt install --reinstall perl-base
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libc6-dbg : Depends: libc6 (= 2.38-1ubuntu6.2) but 2.38-1ubuntu6.1 is 
> to be installed
>   libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.38-1ubuntu6.2) but 2.38-1ubuntu6.1 is 
> to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages 
> (or specify a solution).
> 
>
$ sudo apt -s install --reinstall perl-base -o apt::get::fix-broken=0

run the above command first with the "-s" (simulate) option. If no 
errors, then run for real without the "-s". If successful, run

$ sudo apt install --fix-broken

Alternately,

$ apt download perl-base
$ sudo dpkg -i perl-base
$ sudo apt install --fix-broken

Alternately,

4 dpkg -V perl perl-base perl-modules-5.36
$ apt download perl-base (maybe perl and perl-modules too. Depends on 
what the previous command finds.)
$ dpkg-deb -x perl-base_5.36.0-9ubuntu1.1 perl-base

copy whatever files are missing as listed by the dpkg -V command from 
the extracted perl-base directory to their proper system directory.

For exmple, the error message indicated that the Cwd.pm module was 
missing, so copy it from (assuming the perl-base package was extracted 
to ~/perl-base) ~/perl-base/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base/Cwd.pm to 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base/

Once your perl installation is sorted, then hopefully apt can fix the 
broken libc6 packages.

-- 
Keith