Every Package I Select in to Install in Synaptic is Broken

[vinnywright]

I think he/she neads to ,,,,,

A: use synaptic to search by "origin" and remove packages from all the added PPA's ,their seam to be several.

B: after removing all external packages coment out the PPA's and redo the "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" + "sudo apt-get -f install"

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

You can check for actual broken dependencies by using

sudo apt-get check

You can also clean out your archive cache by usings

sudo apt-get autoclean

The next time you use apt-get or synaptic the command "apt-cache gencaches" will automatically be run to rebuild the archive cache.

[mhumm2]

You can check for actual broken dependencies by using

sudo apt-get check

You can also clean out your archive cache by usings

sudo apt-get autoclean

The next time you use apt-get or synaptic the command "apt-cache gencaches" will automatically be run to rebuild the archive cache.

Hello everyone. I'm back from a trip to Cleveland to visit my folks. Here's some results to digest:

mark@AMD64-LTS:~$ sudo apt-get check
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done

mark@AMD64-LTS:~$ sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Del isc-dhcp-client 4.2.4-7ubuntu12.9 [641 kB]
Del isc-dhcp-common 4.2.4-7ubuntu12.9 [708 kB]

[mhumm2]

I did use the Origin filter in Synaptic and I deleted all the packages installed from the following repositories:

Hit http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu data InRelease
Hit http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu trusty InRelease
Hit http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu data/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu data/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu data/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu data/main i386 Packages
Hit http://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu data/contrib i386 Packages

Then I deleted the above repositories. Then I ran what's become my favorite command:

mark@AMD64-LTS:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
 gir1.2-vte-2.90 lib32z1 libccid libexpat1-dev libjpeg62 libpod-plainer-perl
 libpython-dev libpython2.7-dev libs3decoder0 lsb-security ncurses-term
 osspd-pulseaudio pax pocketsphinx-utils python-decorator python-dev
 python-gnomekeyring python-numpy python-smbc python-sphinxbase python2.7-dev
 sphinx3
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
mark@AMD64-LTS:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
 gir1.2-vte-2.90 lib32z1 libccid libexpat1-dev libjpeg62 libpod-plainer-perl
 libpython-dev libpython2.7-dev libs3decoder0 lsb-security ncurses-term
 osspd-pulseaudio pax pocketsphinx-utils python-decorator python-dev
 python-gnomekeyring python-numpy python-smbc python-sphinxbase python2.7-dev
 sphinx3
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 22 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
After this operation, 49.1 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 283252 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gir1.2-vte-2.90 (1:0.34.9-1ubuntu2) ...
Removing lib32z1 (1:1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1) ...
Removing libccid (1.4.15-1) ...
Removing python-dev (2.7.5-5ubuntu3) ...
Removing python2.7-dev (2.7.6-8ubuntu0.3) ...
Removing libpython-dev:amd64 (2.7.5-5ubuntu3) ...
Removing libpython2.7-dev:amd64 (2.7.6-8ubuntu0.3) ...
Removing libexpat1-dev:amd64 (2.1.0-4ubuntu1.3) ...
Removing libjpeg62:amd64 (6b1-4ubuntu1) ...
Removing libpod-plainer-perl (1.03-1) ...
Removing sphinx3 (0.8-0ubuntu1) ...
Removing libs3decoder0 (0.8-0ubuntu1) ...
Removing lsb-security (4.1+Debian11ubuntu6.2) ...
Removing ncurses-term (5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1) ...
Removing osspd-pulseaudio (1.3.2-5) ...
Removing pax (1:20120606-2+deb7u1) ...
Removing pocketsphinx-utils (0.8.0+real-0ubuntu6) ...
Removing python-decorator (3.4.0-2build1) ...
Removing python-gnomekeyring (2.32.0+dfsg-3) ...
Removing python-numpy (1:1.8.2-0ubuntu0.1) ...
Removing python-smbc (1.0.14.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Removing python-sphinxbase (0.8-0ubuntu10) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.11) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
mark@AMD64-LTS:~$

Then I tried to install a package:

mark@AMD64-LTS:~$ sudo apt-get install 0ad
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:
0ad : Depends: 0ad-data-common (>= 0.0.15) but it is not going to be installed
      Depends: 0ad-data-common (< 0.0.16) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Now what? Something is preventing me from installing any packages. Maybe this can't be fixed! And, maybe it's time to admit defeat and perform a scratch install of the newest LTS version. What are your thoughts?

[jlittle]

aptitude has been able to solve similar problems for me, twice since Hardy, that apt could not, though the last time was I quess 5 years ago. aptitude has a "find broken" function, but I can't remember what comes next; maybe some options on the resolver menu become enabled.

[mhumm2]

Thanks jlittle. I'll try some googling. In the mean time, I don't know that I have broken pkgs or dependencies. Frankly I don't know what the problem is. Some test commands report broken apps and some do not. The underlying problem is that I cannot install ANY packages nor have I been able to since I opened this thread! Any inputs or suggestions you care to share would be greatly appreciated.

[chimak111]

Would the output of

dpkg -l | grep -Ei -v '(^ii|^rc)'

offer any hints re. problematic packages? The code is based on what I read in https://askubuntu.com/questions/1880...ike-ii-rc-mean.

[mhumm2]

Here's the results of the script command:

mark@AMD64-LTS:~$ dpkg -l | grep -Ei -v '(^ii|^rc)'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                                        Version                                    Architecture Description
+++-===========================================================-==========================================-============-===============================================================================

So nothing was captured in the list, but I am still unable to install ANY package from CLI or Synaptic. I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that this problem is not able to be solved. Perhaps there's a bug at work? ...a virus of some sort perhaps? I'll run Clamav and report.

Perhaps it's time to wipe the drive and install the latest LTS version.

[mhumm2]

Clamtk identified all of the LibreOffice macros as potentially harmful, but I took no action against those files. Are there any other ideas?

[acheron]

Can you please post the contents of:

/etc/apt/sources.list

[mhumm2]

Here you go:

# deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 14.04 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release amd64 (20140416.1)]/ trusty main multiverse restricted universe 

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
# deb http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/debian/ main restricted  

# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted 
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted 

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted 

# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted 

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe 
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe 
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe 

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu 
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to 
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in 
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse 
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse 
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse 
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse 

## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse 
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse 

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted 
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted 
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security universe 
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security universe 
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security multiverse 
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security multiverse 

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty partner 
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty partner 

## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
## developers who want to ship their latest software.
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main 
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main

[acheron]

Yikes!

I had a feeling from the earlier posted output of an apt update, that I might see what I do there.

You have:

# deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted

which would would be one of the most basic reasons why you are not managing to install anything.

the # there is commenting out those lines, so you do not have the 'main' pocket of the ubuntu standard trusty repos enabled.

Main is where all the most crucial low level system dependency stuff lives, and well 'main' just basically means main. You can't manage without it. With that disabled, most things you try to install or updated are going to fail with unresolvable dependencies.

Other lines give you the 'main' component from extras, updates etc, but you still need the base archive one.

[mhumm2]

IT WORKS !!! ACHERON, THANK YOU !!! YES I'M YELLING... I'M YELLING FOR JOY! I can't believe it was something so simple. I'm trying to figure out how that repository was remed out. I know I didn't do it at least not directly. Is it possible that the sources.list file was modified by some other process that I initiated?

Finally I can install packages to my system. This thread has been open for quite a while. Thank you to everyone who weighed in to help. It is greatly appreciated. I'm also making note of the fix and the importance of those two repository entries in my Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux. I have already marked this thread solved. Thanks again everyone.

acheron, your avatar looks like the mascot to the best HTML editor I've ever used by a company called, Sausage Software. The program was called Hot Dog 7. I wish there was a Linux version of that application. Anyway, I've already installed Bluefish and Eclipse and CodeBlocker. I'm sure one of them will meet my needs.

[acheron]

You are welcome.

The avatar is meant to be an older version of the KDE mascot, Konqi.

[mhumm2]

Nice. I do remember it now. Thanks again. I learned a lot from that issue.