thanks Thomas and Vince for the input. I am still a Linux novice and the advice is truly appreciated.
On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 12:22:13 PM UTC-5, vince wrote: > > On Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 5:50:58 PM UTC-8, Larry DeBlaay wrote: >> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> weewx : Depends: python-configobj (>= 4.5) but it is not installable >> Depends: python-cheetah (>= 2.0) but it is not installable >> Depends: python-imaging (>= 1.1.6) but it is not installable or >> python-pil (>= 5.1.0) but 4.0.0-4 is to be installed or >> python-pillow (>= 5.1.0) >> Depends: python-usb (>= 0.4) but it is not installable >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >> >> >> > Ouch - I hear debian(ish) distro people gloat all the time about 'rpm > hell' on RedHat-based systems, but to me this one is the worst. Really > painful to deal with. > > I've always thought that the problem is exactly what it says it is in the > message you quoted. The os has broken (partially installed) packages that > need either fixing or removing. Both can get a little scary depending on > which packages, but these should be safe to take a bigger hammer to. > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/223237/unable-to-correct-problems-you-have-held-broken-packages > > might be of help, but I'd suggest you try to figure out which packages are > being considered as 'held' before trying to fix each one-by-one. Maybe you > get lucky and there are just one or two to clean up. > > I've had to do this a couple times and had some success. > https://askubuntu.com/questions/164587/how-can-you-unhold-remove-a-hold-on-a-package > > has some more detail but assumes perhaps a little too much expertise under > the hood of apt, but it does show how to list your installed packages and > look for which ones are 'held' that you will need to deal with. FWIW, I > checked a couple of my raspi and find no packages 'held' on a couple > variants of raspbian. > > Try "dpkg -l | grep ^h" and see which packages are messed up, as your > first step... > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
