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submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by pewpew@feddit.it to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've been trying the COSMIC store and it looks like it killed my apt somehow. Apt says that there is a version mismatch between some libc6 packages, but I checked with dpkg and it all looks correct.

Apt says that I've a newer version of some packages but that is not true. Is there any way to fix this?

EDIT: Fixed formatting

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[-] pewpew@feddit.it 2 points 19 hours ago

What’s the output of apt —fix-broken install, like the big red error message suggests?

You can see it in the post image. I'm using Debian Unstable

[-] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Good looking out. I only saw the one inline with your post body.

You’re on sid, using cosmic and have a read only root filesystem. Is there anything else out of the ordinary with your computer? You replied to another post that you removed additional repos from sources but did you get the ones in sources.d/?

E: sources.list.d, not sources.d

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 1 points 2 hours ago

Correction: My filesystem is not read only. Dpkg can install .deb packages just fine

My guess is that I tried to update packages in a specific time that there was a dependency issue in the Debian Unstable repository.

Cosmic actually compiled and installed perfectly and the system still works and runs stable. It is a problem with Apt

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