apt-get install sysvinit Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-20) but 2.3.6-15 is to be installed locales: Depends: glibc-2.3.2.ds1-20 but it is not installable sysvinit: PreDepends: initscripts but it is not going to be installed PreDepends: sysv-rc (>= 2.86.ds1-1.2) but it is not going to be installed or file-rc (> 0.7.0) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).