Hi there, my sparky is semi-rolling 64bit, 6, po tolo. This problem confused me a long time(for months). When I want to upgrade the system, there is awalys a software that can't be upgraded——sparky6-apt. I tried to upgrade it, the terminal showed that it "Depends: libc6 (>= 2.30) but 2.28-10 is to be installed". Still, never get a complete upgrade, do I? Second, some software such as GIMP, musescore2, qbittorrent, etc., though constantly upgrading, they always seem to stay in old version.; So because of this former problem? Because after I had tried to upgrade evince, (downloaded pacage), it prompted some depencies, and that "old friend" libc6 still included on the list. So is there something wrong? What can I do?
Run this in terminal and post the result
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
Must be a mess, show also:
cat /etc/os-release
cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sparky.list
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates non-free contrib main
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ buster non-free main
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## Other repos can be found in /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory ##
cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="SparkyLinux 6 (Po-Tolo)"
NAME="SparkyLinux"
VERSION_ID="6"
VERSION="6 (Po-Tolo)"
ID=sparky
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://sparkylinux.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://sparkylinux.org/forum/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://sourceforge.net/p/sparkylinux/tickets"
cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sparky.list
cat: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sparky.list: No such file or directory
/etc/apt/sources.list is wrong. Replace its content with:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb-multimedia.org/ bullseye main non-free
## Other repos can be found in /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory ##
Next run
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sparky6-apt
After that run
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt full-upgrade
Thanks a mille! Initially, my first sparky linux was the stable one. Nevertheless, I changed it to this semi-rolling one, which might cauese this problem. By the way, I am a Chinese, so forgive me for my bad writting. In spite of my loaction, the web-brower always waits for long (30m, I think) as I am browsing this website: I often got running out of my patiience,so to ask for help of solving the problem had to be put off . So great help, you've solved the problem that confused me quiet a long period of time and thanks a lot !