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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 22 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 1 points 4 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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