Latest karmic update failed.
 

After seeing the update gui fail with a cryptic message and no
report/listing/diagnostics, I ran
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
and got this:

...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6: Depends: libc-bin (= 2.10.1-0ubuntu18)
but 2.10.1-0ubuntu19 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
jonesy@nix4:~$

As I read that, libc-bin is ahead of the 'depends' that libc6 is
complaining about.

Is using "-f" the proper thing to do in this case (an upgrade)?
apt-get's man page's description of "-f" seems to cover "install/remove"
-- not so much an "upgrade". I'm a little new with ubuntu and this is
my first snafu with apt-get.

(Is there not a 'depends ... or better' specification that could be used
in upgrade check lists? I've seen this sort of catch-22 back in my
Mandrake/PRM days.)

Thanks,
Jonesy
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