install sudo apt-get install synaptic problem help me dear :(
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So you know what you're doing, I am going to explain what that command does. It is two commands joined together with a '&&'.
The two commands by them selves are:
'apt-get update'
and
'apt-get upgrade'.
You could run those commands in that order separately and get the same result as the one command i've given you (assuming everything goes right).
apt-get is your package manager, it used to install programs. When you tell it to 'update'. It checks you /etc/apt/sources.list file. That file has all the locations/reps on where to get packages. apt-get update checks those locations to see what packages are there, so your computer knows what is available.
When you tell apt-get to upgrade, it actually downloads packages from that place, and installs/upgrades them. I hope that's clear. Either way, it's only optional reading, if you're interested in learning.
to do a simulation install of synaptic. To see what gets pulled in on a install.
The language barrier is probably gonna be a killer here.
Post output readout in code tags, That is in the toolbar of the advanced reply window. It's symbol is #.
Edit: Just saw Knightrons reply. I'll back out of here so as not to confuse the issue.
#zeeshanayub disregard my post and just listen to knightron so to avoid confusion.
sudo dpkg -l |grep synaptic
ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.7.4-0ubuntu1 i386 Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
sudo apt-get -s install synaptic
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:
synaptic : Depends: libept1.4.12 but it is not installable
Recommends: libgtk2-perl (>= 1:1.130) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: rarian-compat but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4) but 2.19-0ubuntu6.3 is to be installed
Depends: libept1.4.12 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but 1:4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0) but 2.30.7-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0) but 2.40.0-2 is to be installed
Depends: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0) but 3.10.8-0ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
Depends: libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) but 1.36.3-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.6) but 4.8.2-19ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libvte-2.90-9 (>= 1:0.27.2) but 1:0.34.9-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
download packegs
please send link download
ya
send command
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
This is what i can't understand. Have you held any packages?
rokytnji don't hesitate to step in, i've little knowledge on Ubuntu. Those repos are foreign to me. I have to look them up to understand if they're added or not.
ok but not working apt-get update command
not finsh befor show error
show error
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install vlc
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:
vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.1.4+git20141006+r54582+19+11~ubuntu14.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.10) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11) but it is not installable
Depends: libxcb-composite0 but it is not installable
Depends: libxcb-xv0 (>= 1.2) but it is not installable
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.1.4+git20141006+r54582+19+11~ubuntu14.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.1.4+git20141006+r54582+19+11~ubuntu14.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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