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broken apt system (no libc, ubuntu-minimal)

Asked by Sondra Kinsey

I have a very broken apt system. It works to startup and shutdown, but I have 38 broken packages on my system, including things like libc and gcc. I have a liveCD, but no internet connection. How can I tell it to use the CDROM to get the needed debs? I can find them on the CDrom, and I already tried apt-cdrom with no success. I suspect I have some packages that need downgrading, and some that are on the LiveCD and need to be re-installed.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Uncomment the top few lines that reference the install media as a package source

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

What is the output of

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
sudo dpkg --audit

Just to make sure that I correctly understand: You have no internet connection at all, but you can transfer files to the system via USB stick? What did you do that you ended up with broken packages?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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