When I ran sudo apt-get install mint-meta-cinnamon,
I got these errors :
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:
mint-meta-cinnamon : Depends: cinnamon-screensaver-x-plugin but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I tried so hard and I even tried to install them one by one but it didn't work.
Can someone help please?
Thanks!
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I run sudo apt-get install python3-venv then I get.
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:
python3-venv : Depends: python3.6-venv (>= 3.6.5-2~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python3 (= 3.6.5-3) but 3.6.7-1~18.04 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I'm pretty sure trying to reinstall Python is a bad thing, so I got nowhere else to go.
python -V returns 2.7.17and python3 -V returns 3.6.9.
I bought a new laptop and installed Ubuntu on it, I added the touch pad gestures ,and tweaked some other settings like changing the lockscreen wallpaper etc..
Then i wanted to install Okular but it shows an error:
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:
okular : Depends: libpoppler-qt5-1 (>= 0.62.0-1ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
And i don't know how to solve this.
Run this command as superuser
# apt-get install --fix-broken
It should fix your broken packages
I have been trying to install Android Studio properly to my Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit machine, but I can not solve this very problem. Android studio requires us to install some 32 bit files to 64 bit computers. But when I try to install, I cannot solve the problem.
I have given so many inputs to the terminal and couldn't trace them all. However, I'm sure that I wrote lots of commands on installing lib32stdc++6 and other packages that has been suggested on the internet but every time I got the error message:
[ E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. The following packages have unmet dependencies: X depends Y but it won't be installed ]
Edit: input & output example:
***#***:~$ sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6
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:
lib32stdc++6 : Depends: gcc-5-base (= 5.3.1-13ubuntu6) but 5.3.1-14ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.18) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
(Posted on behalf of the OP):
I solved the problem. I'll write a brief info about the solution process in case anyone else faces with a similar situation. First of all I realised that this problem was all about the incompatibility of 32 bit libraries with 16.04. So that, I changed the "download from" section from the System Settings - Software&Updates.
Select Netherlands instead of your country's repo, that'll be convenient (mine was Turkey before). Then simply update your repos by typing sudo apt-get update to terminal. Lastly, install the required libraries for 16.04 by typing sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6. After all, install Android Studio from the very beginning. I did all those and now Android Studio runs properly.
I'm having some problems trying to setup a mjpg-streamer in my raspberry pi running raspbian. When I was trying to install the package, the following error was appearing:
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libjpeg8-dev' instead of 'libjpeg-dev'
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:
libjpeg8-dev : Depends: libjpeg8 (= 8d-1+deb7u1) but 8d1-2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I've looked a lot of suggestions on google, and tried things like apt-get update and dpkg --get-selections | grep hold (nothing shows up). I really tried a lot of stuff, with no luck.
Do anyone have any suggestion on what to do?
Thanks everyone
As been said, it is a dependency problem, to solve it you can use aptitude.
To install aptitude:
sudo apt-get install aptitude
To use aptitude:
sudo aptitude install package_name-normaly_dev
I did the following to install blender:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:irie/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender
And got this message about unmet dependencies:
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:
blender : Depends: libboost-locale1.54.0 but it is not installable
Depends: libopencolorio1 but it is not installable
Depends: libspnav0 (>= 0.2.1) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I have tried installing each of the 'not installable' packages and their dependencies manually, but it did not solve the problem. Any help is highly appreciated, thank you.
I managed to solve the issue through Synaptic Package Manager. I had tried reinstalling libboot-locale1.54.0 from the terminal and everything seemed to go fine, but still got the same error when installing Blender. Then out of desperation I opened Synaptic Package Manager and did a reinstall of the same package and to my surprise it solved the issue.