Re: broken packages I've had good success asking synaptic package manager to find and fix broken packages[1]
Regards, Phill. 1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto#How_to_fix_broken_packages On 5 March 2016 at 12:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Lubuntu-users mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Lubuntu-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: broken packages ([email protected]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 08:32:06 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [lubuntu-users] broken packages > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi, > > do you have any ppas activated that might interfere? > > > > Am Sa. M?r. 5 09:22:32 2016 GMT+0100 schrieb Wilbert Heeringa: > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for your response. > > I use Lubuntu 14.04.3. > > Installing alacarte is just an example, I get the same problems with many > > other applications which I try to install. > > > > Regards, > > Wilbert > > > > > > > > 2016-03-05 3:13 GMT+01:00 Israel <[email protected]>: > > > > > Hi, > > > what version are you on? > > > If you are using Xenial, then sometimes things don't always work right > > > away. > > > You can try to manually install the gnome menus, and gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 ( > > > possibly doing apt-cache search for those) > > > > > > I don't use alacarte, but if you are trying to reconfigure the menus, > you > > > *could* do it manually... by copying them into your $HOME and editing > the > > > files there. > > > something like: > > > cp /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu > > > ~/.config/menus/lxde-applications.menu > > > (sub in leafpad or whatever you like for pico) > > > pico ~/.config/menus/lxde-applications.menu > > > should work AFAIK > > > > > > > > > > > > On 03/04/2016 04:14 PM, Wilbert Heeringa wrote: > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I try to install alacarte as follows: > > > > > > sudo apt-get install alacarte > > > > > > But this gives the following message: > > > > > > 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: > > > alacarte : Depends: gnome-menus (>= 3.5.3) but it is not installable > > > Depends: gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 (>= 3.5.3) but it is not > installable > > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > > > > Subsequently I run the following commands: > > > > > > sudo dpkg --configure -a > > > sudo apt-get -f install > > > sudo apt-get update > > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > > > Next in the Synaptic Package manager I choose: > > > >Edit >Fix Broken Packages > > > and closed the program. > > > > > > Then I entered again: > > > > > > sudo apt-get install alacarte > > > > > > but got the same message again. > > > > > > Does anybody have an idea what can be wrong? > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Wilbert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Regards > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Lubuntu-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > > End of Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 3 > ******************************************** >
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