Recurring failure to resolve openoffice dependencies, possibly due to held packages

Yangbo Du · 02-16-2011, 11:19 AM

Distro: Ubuntu 9.10 (partially upgraded to 10.04)
Terminal log below:

yangbodu@NIC:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
openoffice.org-base: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
Depends: openoffice.org-java-common (>= 1:3.2.0~) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-base-core: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-calc: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-draw: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-gnome: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-gtk: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-impress: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-math: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-writer: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
yangbodu@NIC:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
openoffice.org-base: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
Depends: openoffice.org-java-common (>= 1:3.2.0~) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-base-core: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-calc: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-draw: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-gnome: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-gtk: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-impress: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-math: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-writer: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
yangbodu@NIC:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... failed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
openoffice.org-base: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
Depends: openoffice.org-java-common (>= 1:3.2.0~) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-base-core: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-calc: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-draw: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-gnome: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-gtk: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-impress: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-math: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
openoffice.org-writer: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2) but 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.3 is installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies

In addition, I was unable to uninstall libreadline5 (since I already have libreadline6 installed). It appears that libreadline5 may be the source of this problem with dependencies.

andrewthomas · 02-16-2011, 08:42 PM

How about trying

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

after changing your sources.list from karmic to lucid.

tommcd · 02-16-2011, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yangbo Du

Distro: Ubuntu 9.10 (partially upgraded to 10.04)

See these on upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-upg...x-desktop.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/upgrade
http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-upgrad...u-9-108-04-lts
Ubuntu 9.10 will reach end of life in April of this year. So it is good you are upgrading now: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-ver...e-details.html
And welcome to the LQ forums!