I'm trying to get dvd playing to work but when I run the appropriate script I get a message saying libc6 is not and will not be installed.
So I run apt-get install libc6 and it comes up saying debconf is not installed.
Try apt-get install debconf (I'm a newbie and don't know any better) and it tells me to run apt-get -f install. But then when I run that it comes back to saying debconf may not be installed.
If anyone can help me out with this I'd really appreciate it.

sounds like you might have messed up the apt depenicies.. what is your output when you run apt-get -f install. please copy and paste the whole thing.

root@mythtv:~ # 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 locales
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libc6
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4921kB of archives.
After unpacking 16.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed?
(Reading database ... 21 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_i386.deb) ...
dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@mythtv:~ #

well you could use this:



This command will either fix your box, or screw it over worse
i have never had it make things worse, but in theory depending on what your installing it can cause problems. Its (AFAIK) the only fix for your problem.