Installing new programes through Muon [package manager and sofware center]

[AkaMartin]

Hello!

I'm really new, as this is my first post. I've been using Kubuntu on my laptop for over a year now and I'm very pleased with it.

However lately I've been having problems with installations in muon. Whenver I try to install something it all goes well (it informs me of the requirement of changing some installed packages), but after the package(s) is (are) supposedly installed it turns out that they in fact are not. If I try again, the same thing happens all over again. I'm not sure how to repair that.

Because of the nature of the problem it's hard for me to provide you with any pictures...

[Snowhog]

Welcome to KFN.

What are some of the programs you have installed with Muon Package Manager that you believe aren't actually installed?

[AkaMartin]

What are some of the programs you have installed with Muon Package Manager that you believe aren't actually installed?

I wanted to start coding again (after a long time away from it), so I was trying to install IDLE (the 2.7 and 3.2 version).

PS: Thank you for the welcome!

[Snowhog]

If you used Muon Package Manager (recommended over Muon Software Center) and selected IDLE for installation, then it is installed. The actual execution package is idle-python2.7. IDLE is a dependency package.

The application is in the K Menu under Development.

[oshunluvr]

Is your issue actually that idle hasn't appeared in your kmenu?

Open a terminal (konsole) and type idle and enter.

If you get:

The program 'idle' is currently not installed.
You can install it by typing:sudo apt-get install idle

then it's not installed.

If it is installed, you may have to make your menu entry.

[AkaMartin]

It is definitely not installed. I do not even have a ''Develpment'' section in K menu.

I did try installing it in Konsole. Here's what happened:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch but it is not installable
idle : Depends: python (>= 2.7.3-0ubuntu7) but 2.7.3-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: python-tk (>= 2.4.3-3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: idle-python2.7 but it is not going to be installed
nspluginwrapper : Depends: nspluginviewer (= 1.4.4-0ubuntu4) but it is not installable
skype : Depends: skype-bin but it is not installable
wine1.4 : Depends: wine1.4-i386 (= 1.4-0ubuntu4.1) but it is not installable
N: Ignoring file 'eduke32.lis' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
N: Ignoring file 'eduke32.lis' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

[Snowhog]

What version of Kubuntu are you running, and what version of KDE?

[vinnywright]

as well as what @Snowhog has asked ,,,,,what other sources have you added to your system (like 'eduke32.lis') and why, where, how ,did you add and get them ?

likely this is source of your problem !!

VINNY

[AkaMartin]

I'm not really sure which version of both I have. I've been wanting to check on how to check that, but then I forgot. I tried

kde4-config -v

and I got this:

KDE Development Platform: 4.8.5.

''cat /etc/issue'' returns this:

Ubuntu (I'm guessing it's because the basis is the same) 12.10

Also Eduke is supposed to be a freeware port of duke nukem 3d, but I never got it to work. How can I delete it from the sources?

PS: Thank you all for helping me.

[Snowhog]

Also Eduke is supposed to be a freeware port of duke nukem 3d, but I never got it to work. How can I delete it from the sources?

PS: Thank you all for helping me.

Open a console and type:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/[COLOR=#333333]eduke32.lis[/COLOR]

That will remove the sources file for Eduke. Then type:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This will up date the package cache and check for updates to installed software.

[AkaMartin]

Open a console and type:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/[COLOR=#333333]eduke32.lis[/COLOR]

That will remove the sources file for Eduke. Then type:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This will up date the package cache and check for updates to installed software.

Done, thank you. However I am still unable to install any new packages.

[AkaMartin]

sudo apt-get install

the result:

You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch but it is not installable
nspluginwrapper : Depends: nspluginviewer (= 1.4.4-0ubuntu4) but it is not installable
skype : Depends: skype-bin but it is not installable
wine1.4 : Depends: wine1.4-i386 (= 1.4-0ubuntu4.1) but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

And when I try

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

the exact same thing happens.

I tried installing IDLE, the problems are as follows:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch but it is not installable
idle : Depends: python (= 2.7.4-0ubuntu1) but 2.7.3-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: python-tk (>= 2.4.3-3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: idle-python2.7 but it is not going to be installed
Breaks: python (< 2.7.3-1~) but 2.7.3-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
nspluginwrapper : Depends: nspluginviewer (= 1.4.4-0ubuntu4) but it is not installable
skype : Depends: skype-bin but it is not installable
wine1.4 : Depends: wine1.4-i386 (= 1.4-0ubuntu4.1) but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Any solutions?

[vinnywright]

and what happens when you do

sudo apt-get -f install

VINNY

[AkaMartin]

This:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
lib32bz2-1.0 libreoffice-l10n-common libaccess-bridge-java libgail18 diffstat libgmime-2.6-0 lib32ncurses5 libgucharmap7 libgnomecanvas2-0 libx264-116 lib32tinfo5 ubufox desktop-file-utils
libgnomeui-0 libglew1.5 libburn4 libdee-1.0-4 python-zeitgeist libzeitgeist-1.0-1 libindicator3-7 zeitgeist-datahub zeitgeist lib32ffi6 lib32gcc1 libappindicator3-1 lib32asound2
libaccess-bridge-java-jni libexempi3 extremetuxracer-extras libvpx0 libtotem-plparser17 tcl8.5 libquvi7 lib32ncursesw5 libgnomeui-common zeitgeist-core libnautilus-extension1
libbonoboui2-0 brasero-common timidity-daemon libquvi-scripts libid3tag0 html2text timidity lib32z1 libmusicbrainz4c2a libjte1 lib32stdc++6 openoffice.org-common libkms1 libisofs6 sqlite3
libmail-sendmail-perl libbonoboui2-common libsys-hostname-long-perl indicator-application libgnomecanvas2-common libsmpeg0 libtiff5 libjbig0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
gcr gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-glib-2.0 glib-networking glib-networking-common glib-networking-services gnome-keyring libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i386 libgck-1-0 libgcr-3-1
libgirepository-1.0-1 libglib2.0-0 libgnutls26 libjbig0 libnih-dbus1 libnih1 libp11-kit-gnome-keyring libtasn1-3 libtiff5 python-gi
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc gnutls-bin python-gi-cairo
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ia32-libs nspluginwrapper q4wine skype wine wine1.3 wine1.4 wine1.4-amd64 wine1.4-common zsnes
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcr libjbig0 libp11-kit-gnome-keyring libtiff5
The following packages will be upgraded:
gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-glib-2.0 glib-networking glib-networking-common glib-networking-services gnome-keyring libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i386 libgck-1-0 libgcr-3-1
libgirepository-1.0-1 libglib2.0-0 libgnutls26 libnih-dbus1 libnih1 libtasn1-3 python-gi
19 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 10 to remove and 1440 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/15.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 120 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 19919 package 'zsnes':
mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

[vinnywright]

the deal seams to be that something you have installed thrugh a non standard repo that you added has left you with a un-upgradeable system do to

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 19919 package 'zsnes':
 mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present

you may be able to track down the offending packages with muon ,by using the "filter by origin" filter and removing them !!

in other words remove/purge whatever you added just before this problem occurred and remove/disable the non standard repo that thay came from .

VINNY