Running VirtualBox VM host on ReadyNAS Pro

@MattyShack I am running into the following issue. When I try to install aptitude and synaptic, I get the error you described from apt-get being at a higher level. But when I try to downgrade apt-get, it wants to remove dpkg, ssh. I tried this once and it is a bad thing. Had to re-install the OS since ssh was gone. Do you have any advice?

NASHOG:~# apt-get install aptitude synaptic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11
synaptic: Depends: libapt-inst-libc6.3-6-1.1
Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11
E: Broken packages
NASHOG:~#


NASHOG:~# apt-get install apt=0.6.46*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version 0.6.46.4-0.1+etch1 (Debian:4.0r9/oldstable) for apt
Suggested packages:
aptitude synaptic gnome-apt wajig dpkg-dev apt-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dpkg openssh-client openssh-server ssh
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
apt
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
dpkg
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 4 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1438kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.4MB disk space will be freed.
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