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This is what Update Manager pops up with:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

libc6: Depends: libc-bin (= 2.15-0ubuntu10.4) but 2.15-0ubuntu10.4 is installed
       Depends: libgcc1 but it is not installed
       Depends: tzdata but it is not installed

Edit:

sudo apt-get -f install

returns:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apt-utils coreutils debconf debconf-i18n dpkg libacl1 libapt-inst1.4
  libapt-pkg4.12 libattr1 libbz2-1.0 libdb5.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl
  liblzma5 libselinux1 libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
  libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base tar tzdata xz-utils zlib1g
Suggested packages:
  debconf-doc debconf-utils whiptail dialog gnome-utils
  libterm-readline-gnu-perl libgtk2-perl libnet-ldap-perl libqtgui4-perl
  libqtcore4-perl apt bzip2 ncompress xz-lzma
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apt-utils coreutils debconf debconf-i18n dpkg libacl1 libapt-inst1.4
  libapt-pkg4.12 libattr1 libbz2-1.0 libdb5.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl
  liblzma5 libselinux1 libstdc++6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
  libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base tar tzdata xz-utils zlib1g
0 upgraded, 24 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/9,304 kB of archives.
After this operation, 29.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed?
debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory
dpkg: regarding .../libgcc1_1%3a4.6.3-1ubuntu5_i386.deb containing libgcc1, pre- dependency problem:
 libgcc1 pre-depends on multiarch-support
  multiarch-support is unpacked, but has never been configured.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.6.3-1ubuntu5_i386.deb (-   -unpack):
 pre-dependency problem - not installing libgcc1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.6.3-1ubuntu5_i386.deb
E: Internal Error, No file name for libc6
W: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'multiarch-support:i386'. Please see  man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

sudo dpkg --configure -a returns

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6:
 libc6 depends on libgcc1; however:
  Package libgcc1 is not installed.
 libc6 depends on tzdata; however:
  Package tzdata is not installed.
dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of multiarch-support:
 multiarch-support depends on libc6 (>= 2.13-0ubuntu6); however:
  Package libc6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing multiarch-support (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc6
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  • I added it to the main post, since there's a character limit to the comments. Thanks for taking the time! – louisa Jul 20 '13 at 01:18
  • Edited. Also, I was trying to install netflix-desktop when I think I bugged up the package manager--a very weird screen about font trademarks came up halfway through the install and I couldn't get it to go away. Now the first error message runs every time I try to get update manager to install files. – louisa Jul 20 '13 at 01:39
  • Hilariously, libgcc1 and tzdata each will not install--because they depend on each other. It's a bit of a Catch-22 here. – louisa Jul 20 '13 at 01:41
  • Wow, I must be tired... I missed this 3 times. Try sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.6.3-1ubuntu5_i386.deb as this is the specific file that is causing you issues, the package manager is falling over here. If that file is damaged by a mis-installed netflix-desktop for example, removing it should clear the lock on the package manager – KentGeek Jul 20 '13 at 01:52
  • I did that and ran sudo apt-get -f install and it returned the same list of dependency problems. – louisa Jul 20 '13 at 16:29

1 Answers1

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When this error shows up:

E: Internal Error, No file name for libc6

According to a bug in launchpad, running these commands will fix it (and it worked for me too):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get install -fy
sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get install -fy
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

more specifically, for me, this command did it:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
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