Eu o reinstalei pelo aptitude. Muito poderoso do que o apt-get e o dpkg, nenhum deles reinstalar obras.
sudo aptitude reinstall libc6
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
libc6
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.15-0ubuntu10.5) but 2.17-0ubuntu5.1 is installed.
libc-dev-bin : Depends: libc6 (< 2.16) but 2.17-0ubuntu5.1 is installed.
libnih1 : PreDepends: libc6 (< 2.16) but 2.17-0ubuntu5.1 is installed.
E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the libc6 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Downgrade the following packages:
1) libc-bin [2.15-0ubuntu10.5 (now, precise-security, precise-updates) -> 2.15-0ubuntu10 (precise)]
2) libc-dev-bin [2.15-0ubuntu10.5 (now, precise-security, precise-updates) -> 2.15-0ubuntu10 (precise)]
3) libc6 [2.17-0ubuntu5.1 (now) -> 2.15-0ubuntu10 (precise)]
4) libc6-dev [2.15-0ubuntu10.5 (now, precise-security, precise-updates) -> 2.15-0ubuntu10 (precise)]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,852 kB of archives. After unpacking 88.1 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Como o aptitude diz, há 4 pacotes pertencentes à libc6, mas eu só instalei um deles pelo arquivo deb. Talvez essa seja a razão para o lixo do sistema