newsaccess:/etc# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 Suggested packages: glibc-doc The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 191 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/4552kB of archives. After unpacking 401kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 42483 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 (using .../archives/libc6_2.5-7_i386.deb) ... WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version 2.6.1 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it before installing glibc. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-7_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-7_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)