$ sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install build-essential 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: build-essential : Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or libc-dev Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.4.3) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages $ sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install libc6-dev 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 : Depends: libc6 (= 2.11.3-2) but 2.13-27 is to be installed Depends: libc-dev-bin (= 2.11.3-2) but 2.13-27 is to be installed E: Broken packages $ apt-cache policy libc6 libc6: Installed: 2.13-27 Candidate: 2.13-27 Version table: *** 2.13-27 0 500 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.11.3-3 0 500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/main i386 Packages 2.11.3-2 0 900 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages