[LBo] Did I FUBAR My Debian Install?

[Rob Matherly]

Hey all;

I recently "upgraded" (i.e., wiped the drive and re-installed) to Debian
4.0.  It ran fine for a while, then I goofed and apparently added an apt
repository that I shouldn't have.  I belive I may have incorporated
something into my system that's causing broken dependencies.

I believe it started when I tried to solve a problem with no audio
accompanying flash video in Firefox.  Somewhere, I installed something
that attempted to upgrade libc6.  In the process, tzdata and something
else were removed.  (I later reinstalled tzdata from a web download.)

Now, if I attempt to install *anything*, Synaptic tells me that I must
first remove basically my entire system; the kernel package, x.org, kde,
openoffice, etc.

What in the world did I do?  I've removed the suspected repository (I
believe I added a "testing" or "unstable" branch to install OpenTTD with
Synaptic)

- Rob