aptitude install build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: libc6-dev The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: g++ g++-4.1 libstdc++6-4.1-dev linux-kernel-headers The following NEW packages will be installed: build-essential g++ g++-4.1 libstdc++6-4.1-dev linux-kernel-headers 0 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 8848kB of archives. After unpacking 38.4MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.6.ds1-13) but 2.5-9 is installed. Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: build-essential [Not Installed] g++ [Not Installed] g++-4.1 [Not Installed] libc6-dev [Not Installed] libstdc++6-4.1-dev [Not Installed] Score is -9965 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]