root@localhost:~# apt-cache policy libc6-dev libc6-dev: Installed: 2.15-0ubuntu10.12 Candidate: 2.15-0ubuntu10.13 Version table: 2.15-0ubuntu10.13 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main i386 Packages *** 2.15-0ubuntu10.12 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.15-0ubuntu10 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages root@localhost:~# apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: ttf-dejavu-core libneon27 msr-tools g++-4.4 kernel-wedge libcap2 git-man libdns64 libstdc++6-4.4-dev libeggdbus-1-0 libfontconfig1 tk fontconfig-config liberror-perl libisccc60 cpu-checker finger liblwres60 libgmp3c2 cvs git libxft2 libpython2.6 libbind9-60 tcl libxss1 tcl8.4 gitk libmpfr1ldbl libisccfg60 libnl1 tk8.4 tk8.5 git-core kernel-package libisc60 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev Suggested packages: glibc-doc The following packages will be upgraded: libc6-dev 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/5,101 kB of archives. After this operation, 3,072 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dev: libc6-dev depends on libc6 (= 2.15-0ubuntu10.12); however: Version of libc6 on system is 2.15-0ubuntu10.13. libc6-dev depends on libc-dev-bin (= 2.15-0ubuntu10.12); however: Version of libc-dev-bin on system is 2.15-0ubuntu10.13. dpkg: error processing libc6-dev (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Errors were encountered while processing: libc6-dev E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)