[Solved]Dependency resolution failed

[redridernl]

I noticed that there were a bunch of notifications in the task bar, over 20. I clicked on it to see what they were and it just flashed briefly but wouldn't open so I could see what they were. I didn't know what else to try so I turned off all notifications except for file transfers and other jobs, meaning that I turned off everything under the heading "icons". In less that two minutes I received another notification with the following error:

Dependency resolution failed

A package dependency could not be found.
More information is available in the detailed report.

There are broken dependencies on your system. Please use an advanced package manage e.g. Synaptic or aptitude to resolve this situation.

This notification keeps popping up every few minutes. Probably as often as I was getting the other notifications that it wouldn't let me read. I have a feeling that if I enable those notifications again, I'll stop getting the errors and they'll just build up down there again.

Can someone please tell me how to do the advanced package manage? In noob terms so that I can understand it.

Thanks

[redridernl]

Re: Dependency resolution failed

**Fingers crossed**

I may have solved it. After my last post I did a quick google search and came up with this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/add-app.../advanced.html

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

It turns out I missed something when I installed Java today. When it finished it told me to
sudo apt-get -f install

I'll mark the thread as solved if everything is still okay tomorrow. Hopefully this may help another noob.

[Snowhog]

Re: Dependency resolution failed

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

You will find, that running apt-get dist-upgrade instead will serve you better.

man apt-get

(upgrade)

upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages
currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
/etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new
versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no
circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages
not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of
currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without
changing the install status of another package will be left at
their current version. An update must be performed first so that
apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.

(dist-upgrade)

dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file
contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package
files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding
the general settings for individual packages.