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The suggested links to fix the issue focus on removing the broken package. If I try to remove the sysvinit-utils package I get the output as indicated below (the long list of dependencies of lsb-base) and the remove fails. So the suggested link does not resolve it, I have tried the several additional options like removing the package with dpkg directly and the same happens. So I'm stuck in a loop.
Suggested duplicate link This link does not fix it, please look at the content of my request and you will see that this is a "simple" non-essential package that would need to be removed. It does not fix my issue, hence the reason I opened this request.
I wanted to update smartmontools to 7.4 in Ubuntu 22.04 (It is not for ubu22, version 7.4 is not available) so I installed the latest version using dpkg and then several dependencies were needed so I installed also the latest version of sysvinit-utils (3.08-6ubuntu2, again not for ubu22), then the dependency of libc6 and I do not want to do that due to additional dependencies. So in trying to revert the changes I run into the following issue:
Now when I want to run apt upgrade I get this:
sudo apt upgrade
[sudo] password for niels:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
sysvinit-utils : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.6 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
So I run it and get:
sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... failed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
sysvinit-utils : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.6 is installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
I can't downgrade the sysvinit-utils to the previous version:
sudo apt install sysvinit-utils=3.01-1ubuntu1
[sudo] password for niels:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for niels:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
acpid : Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.2-14)
---snip---
unattended-upgrades : Depends: lsb-base
x11-common : Depends: lsb-base (>= 1.3-9ubuntu2)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I've tried to do what is suggested here and I keep getting back to the same issue: How to downgrade a package via apt-get?
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
