Problem

So I having this problem after upgrading from Ubuntu server 8.04->10.04->12.04.

Initial Command

apt-get install -f



dpkg: warning: files list file for package `tcpd' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `python-pkg-resources' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

.... Many many more of these warnings

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libxml-libxml-perl' missing, assuming no files currently installed.



(Reading database ... 1126 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to replace libc6 2.15-0ubuntu10 (using .../libc6_2.15-0ubuntu10.5_i386.deb) ...



A copy of the C library was found in an unexpected directory:

  '/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so'

It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation;

please remove that copy of the C library or get it out of

'/lib/i386-linux-gnu' and try again.



dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.15-0ubuntu10.5_i386.deb (--unpack):

 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.15-0ubuntu10.5_i386.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Things I have tried

• I have tried moving the libc-2.15.so but this creates an error:
  apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


• apt-get --purge remove libc6 this will not work as libc6 is needed by the system


• sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc6=2.15-0ubuntu10.5 libc6-dev=2.15-0ubuntu10.5 just guess work but this didn't work either.

Anyway, as you can see I'm stuck, I can not upgrade any of my packages...

My sources list is take from here https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/sample/sources.list