Once I purged amarok* (sudo apt-get purge amarok*) I could then successfully re-install and run Amarok.
Sorry for the bug report; please close or remove. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to amarok in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1565552 Title: Amarok unable to start in 16.04 beta Status in amarok package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Starting from krunner, I get the error message: KDEInit could not launch 'amarok': Could not open library '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkdeinit5_amarok'. Cannot load library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkdeinit5_amarok: (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkdeinit5_amarok.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) When I launched `ubuntu-bug amarok` from the command-line, apport reported that Amarok was not installed, which was news, since it was installed before upgrading to the beta. $ sudo apt install amarok [sudo] password for valorie: 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: amarok : Depends: amarok-common (= 2:2.8.0-0ubuntu6) but 2:2.8.90-0ubuntu1~ubuntu15.10~ppa2 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch) Release: 16.04 $ apt-cache policy amarok amarok: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2:2.8.0-0ubuntu6 Version table: 2:2.8.90-0ubuntu1~ubuntu15.10~ppa2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2:2.8.0-0ubuntu6 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: amarok (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-15.31-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Sun Apr 3 13:41:32 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-11 (236 days ago) InstallationMedia: It SourcePackage: amarok UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-27 (7 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+bug/1565552/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
