APT question

[Ed lawson]

For reasons best left unsaid, I tried to upgrade a Debian system only
to discover the upgrade of libc6 requires a 2.6 kernel.  since kernel
versions are not part of the upgrade process I need to upgrade the
kernel separately.  The problem is when I try to install a 2.6
kernel, APT keeps barfing due to an inability to upgrade libc6.  

My question is how to I tell APT to forget about all the pending
package upgrades and just install a kernel?  Is there some command to
tell it to start fresh and clear out what it thinks it needs to do?

TIA

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Ed Lawson
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