Remember is that debootstrap installs a BASE system image. It will be missing many things and leave a lot of steps up to the administrator. So it's common to have apt-get but not apt-utils.
Now as for the missing apt-get...
Package dependencies are handled by the setup scripts for each distro by their maintainers. Every once in a (great) while they are screwed up and you have to wait until they get them sorted out.
That seems to be part of your problem.
The other part is probably related to Ubuntu. Some people have reported success, others report lots of issues. I do the majority of my testing with Debian Sid and occasionally use Etch so I can't personally say anything about Ubuntu issues.
Can someone else who has had success with Ubuntu offer some advice here?
re: fail at XVI. Install additional packages.
Remember is that debootstrap installs a BASE system image. It will be missing many things and leave a lot of steps up to the administrator. So it's common to have apt-get but not apt-utils.
Now as for the missing apt-get...
Package dependencies are handled by the setup scripts for each distro by their maintainers. Every once in a (great) while they are screwed up and you have to wait until they get them sorted out.
That seems to be part of your problem.
The other part is probably related to Ubuntu. Some people have reported success, others report lots of issues. I do the majority of my testing with Debian Sid and occasionally use Etch so I can't personally say anything about Ubuntu issues.
Can someone else who has had success with Ubuntu offer some advice here?