Hi All,
I was trying to install vmware-server on ubuntu gutsy gibbon.
But after about 2-3 mins, I pressed CTRL+C to abort the process.
Now whenever I try to install it again, I'm hit with the following dependency problems.
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aman@ubox:~$ sudo apt-get install vmware-server
[sudo] password for aman:
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:
gnome2-globalmenu-applet: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) but 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
gtk2-engines-pixbuf: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) but 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
gtk2.0-examples: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) but 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
libgtk2.0-0: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) but 1.18.2-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
libgtk2.0-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.12.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.10.0-2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libatk1.0-dev (>= 1.6.1-2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcairo2-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libx11-dev (>= 2:1.0.0-6) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxext-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxinerama-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxi-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxrandr-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxfixes-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxcomposite-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxdamage-dev but it is not going to be installed
vmware-server: Depends: xinetd but it is not going to be installed or
netkit-inetd or
inetd but it is not installable
Depends: vmware-server-kernel-modules but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
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So when I try apt-get -f install , I get a long list of packages, asking for removal, which I obviously don't want.
Now I am unable to install anything using apt-get

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aman@ubox:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for aman:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgnucrypto-java libcommons-collections3-java libsm-dev libofx3 libgsf-gnome-1-114 guile-1.6 liblzo1 libcommons-pool-java libice-dev libgoffice-0-common
x11proto-xext-dev libdc1394-13 libatk1.0-dev x11proto-kb-dev libglib2.0-dev liblucene-java libcrypt-ssleay-perl libcairo-jni libosp5 mplayer-skins
libcommons-el-java x11proto-xinerama-dev fftw3 libpango1.0-dev junit x11proto-render-dev libregexp-java libcommons-modeler-java libxi-dev
liblog4j1.2-java libxrender-dev libfinance-quote-perl mysql-common libcairo2-dev libxdmcp-dev libseda-java libcommons-cli-java libtomcat5.5-java
libdvbpsi4 libavformat1d libxosd2 libfontconfig1-dev libmysqlclient15off x11proto-composite-dev xtrans-dev libbcel-java slib libcairo-java libvlc0
libglib-jni x11proto-core-dev libxcursor-dev ant python-qt3 libcommons-launcher-java libcommons-logging-java vlc-nox libggi2 libbcprov-java
x11proto-randr-dev python-sip4 x11proto-damage-dev libgii1 libhtml-tableextract-perl libwxbase2.6-0 icedax libxext-dev libxdamage-dev
libcommons-dbcp-java libglib-java libtunepimp5 x11proto-input-dev libifp4 libfreetype6-dev libgii1-target-x x11proto-fixes-dev
libcommons-collections-java libdate-manip-perl libdvdnav4 libxau-dev libcommons-beanutils-java libiso9660-4 libxcomposite-dev libxrandr-dev libexpat1-dev
libcommons-digester-java libxft-dev libx11-dev libtar liblucene-java-doc libjsch-java libxfixes-dev libadns1 guile-1.6-slib mplayer-nogui ant-optional
libxinerama-dev gnucash-common libvcdinfo0 libebml0 libsvncpp0c2a libmx4j-java libmatroska0 libnjb5 libofa0 wireshark-common libsdl-image1.2 libungif4g
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libatk1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libglib2.0-dev libice-dev libpango1.0-dev libpng12-dev libsm-dev libx11-dev
libxau-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev
libxrender-dev x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-randr-dev
x11proto-render-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev xtrans-dev zlib1g-dev
Suggested packages:
libcairo2-doc libglib2.0-doc libpango1.0-doc imagemagick
The following packages will be REMOVED:
alacarte amarok amarok-xine apport-gtk apturl at-spi audacity azureus bluez-gnome brltty-x11 bug-buddy compiz compiz-gnome compiz-plugins
contact-lookup-applet deskbar-applet displayconfig-gtk eclipse eclipse-jdt eclipse-pde eclipse-platform eclipse-rcp eclipse-source ekiga eog evince
evolution evolution-exchange evolution-plugins evolution-webcal f-spot fast-user-switch-applet file-roller firefox firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-gnome-support
firefox-gnome-support gcalctool gconf-editor gdebi gdesklets gdesklets-data gdm gedit gimp gimp-print gimp-python gksu gmountiso gnome-about
gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-app-install gnome-applets gnome-apt gnome-btdownload gnome-control-center gnome-games gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring
gnome-keyring-manager gnome-mag gnome-media gnome-menus gnome-mount gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-nettool gnome-orca gnome-panel gnome-pilot
gnome-pilot-conduits gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver gnome-session gnome-spell gnome-system-monitor gnome-system-tools gnome-terminal gnome-themes
gnome-user-guide gnome-utils gnome-volume-manager gnome2-globalmenu-applet gnomebaker gnucash gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gthumb gtk-gnutella gtk2-engines
gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks gtk2.0-examples gtkhtml3.14 gucharmap hal-cups-utils hal-device-manager human-theme hwdb-client-gnome
language-selector language-support-en libatspi1.0-0 libbonoboui2-0 libdeskbar-tracker libedataserverui1.2-8 libeel2-2 libexchange-storage1.2-3
libgail-common libgail-gnome-module libgail18 libgconf2.0-cil libgdl-1-0 libgdl-gnome-1-0 libgimp2.0 libgksu2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libglade2-0
libglade2.0-cil libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-window-settings1 libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2.0-cil libgnomecanvas2-0
libgnomekbd1 libgnomekbdui1 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgoffice-0-4 libgpod2 libgtk-java libgtk-jni libgtk2-perl libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-cil libgtk2.0-dev libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkhtml2.0-cil libgtkhtml3.14-19 libgtkhtml3.8-15 libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtksourceview1.0-0
libgtksourceview2.0-0 libgtkspell0 libgucharmap6 libgutenprintui2-1 liblaunchpad-integration0 liblpint-bonobo0 libmetacity0 libnautilus-burn4
libnautilus-extension1 libnotify1 libpanel-applet2-0 libpoppler-glib2 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common librsvg2.0-cil libsexy2 libswt3.2-gtk-java
libswt3.2-gtk-jni libtotem-plparser7 libtracker-gtk0 libvte9 libwmf0.2-7 libwnck22 libwxgtk2.6-0 linuxdcpp metacity mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb
mozilla-mplayer multiget nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-sendto network-manager-gnome notification-daemon onboard openoffice.org openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk
openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-math
openoffice.org-style-human openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us openoffice.org-writer pidgin python-at-spi python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gnome2-desktop
python-gnome2-extras python-gnomecanvas python-gtk2 python-gtkhtml2 python-launchpad-integration python-notify python-pygtksourceview python-sexy
python-uno python-virtkey python-vte rapidsvn restricted-manager rhythmbox scim scim-gtk2-immodule scim-modules-table scim-tables-additional
screensaver-default-images serpentine software-properties-gtk sound-juicer ssh-askpass-gnome synaptic system-config-printer tangerine-icon-theme
thunderbird-locale-en-gb tomboy totem totem-gstreamer totem-mozilla tracker tracker-search-tool tsclient ubufox ubuntu-artwork ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-docs
update-manager update-notifier vim-gnome vino vlc wireshark xdg-user-dirs-gtk xsane xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-gl xulrunner-1.9 yelp zenity
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libatk1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libglib2.0-dev libice-dev libpango1.0-dev libpng12-dev libsm-dev libx11-dev
libxau-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev
libxrender-dev x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-randr-dev
x11proto-render-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev xtrans-dev zlib1g-dev
0 upgraded, 35 newly installed, 251 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 12.5MB of archives.
After unpacking 974MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
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Moreover, Synaptic is also not working. Whenever I try Add/Remove under the Applications Menu , I get the following errors

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Failed to check for installed and available applications

This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I need to run WinXp inside Ubuntu.

TIA
Aman Jain
India

Did you try running
and then trying again?

Cancelling apt job is a bad thing usually it asks you to configure the packages by running that command manually if you stop it, before it is willing to do anything else.

I tried dpkg --configure -a
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aman@ubox:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for aman:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk2.0-0:
libgtk2.0-0 depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3); however:
Version of libpango1.0-0 on system is 1.18.2-0ubuntu1.
dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-0 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gtk2.0-examples:
gtk2.0-examples depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3); however:
Version of libpango1.0-0 on system is 1.18.2-0ubuntu1.
gtk2.0-examples depends on libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.12.0-1ubuntu3.1); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gtk2.0-examples (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gtk2-engines-pixbuf:
gtk2-engines-pixbuf depends on gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0; however:
Package gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0 is not installed.
Package libgtk2.0-0 which provides gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0 is not configured yet.
gtk2-engines-pixbuf depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3); however:
Version of libpango1.0-0 on system is 1.18.2-0ubuntu1.
gtk2-engines-pixbuf depends on libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.12.0-1ubuntu3.1); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gtk2-engines-pixbuf (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk2.0-dev:
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.12.0-1ubuntu3.1); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.12.0); however:
Package libglib2.0-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.10.0-2); however:
Package libpango1.0-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libatk1.0-dev (>= 1.6.1-2); however:
Package libatk1.0-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libcairo2-dev; however:
Package libcairo2-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libx11-dev (>= 2:1.0.0-6); however:
Package libx11-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libxext-dev; however:
Package libxext-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libxinerama-dev; however:
Package libxinerama-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libxi-dev; however:
Package libxi-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libxrandr-dev; however:
Package libxrandr-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libxcursor-dev; however:
Package libxcursor-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libxfixes-dev; however:
Package libxfixes-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libxcomposite-dev; however:
Package libxcomposite-dev is not installed.
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libxdamage-dev; however:
Package libxdamage-dev is not installed.
dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome2-globalmenu-applet:
gnome2-globalmenu-applet depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
gnome2-globalmenu-applet depends on libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3); however:
Version of libpango1.0-0 on system is 1.18.2-0ubuntu1.
dpkg: error processing gnome2-globalmenu-applet (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libgtk2.0-0
gtk2.0-examples
gtk2-engines-pixbuf
libgtk2.0-dev
gnome2-globalmenu-applet
aman@ubox:~$
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