apt-get install complains for broken packages

[lafaki]

Hi,

I am not able to install several applications and services on my Debian machine.
For instance when I try to install fail2ban I get the below error message:

root:~# apt-get install fail2ban
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev : Breaks: gcc-4.4 (< 4.4.6-4) but 4.4.5-8 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Could you please give me any tips how to overcome this?
I have run several times apt-get update and apt-get upgrade but nothing changes.

Thanks,
Akis

[cynwulf]

post outputs

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

aptitude clean && aptitude update

aptitude -f install

(Answer yes unless you see a good reason not to.)

aptitude install fail2ban

[lafaki]

After running all these commands fail2ban was properly installed and apt-get install runs without any 'Broken Packages' errors

Thanks for your help!!

P.S. I am not able to paste the outputs of the commands as I am not allowed to insert URL links

[cynwulf]

Heh... I thought that might do it...

Truth be told I missed a step though, after running "aptitude -f install" it would have been an idea to run an upgrade as well.

You don't need url links, just copy and paste and use the [code][/code] BBcode tags.

Glad it's sorted, though.