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HI sorry , I have tried a couple of things, but this seems to be quite a mess...Evertytime I uninstall a package I get an error and a list of unmet dependencies. If I then reinstall the package I still get errors. For example:
Code:
antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove hplip
[sudo] password for antobbo:
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.
printer-driver-postscript-hp : Depends: hplip (>= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
[1]+ Done firefox
antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ apt-get install hplip
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install hplip
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.
hplip : Depends: printer-driver-hpcups (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.3) but 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
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:
linux-headers-3.2.0-32 firefox-globalmenu linux-headers-3.2.0-32-generic
libllvm3.0:i386
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
hplip printer-driver-hpcups
Suggested packages:
hplip-gui hplip-doc system-config-printer
The following packages will be upgraded:
hplip printer-driver-hpcups
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
11 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/393 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up procps (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.2) ...
FATAL: Module bbswitch not found.
invoke-rc.d: initscript procps, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing procps (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups:
cups depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cups (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of printer-driver-hpcups:
printer-driver-hpcups depends on cups; however:
Package cups is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing printer-driver-hpcups (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hplip:
hplip depends on libhpmud0 (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2); however:
Version of libhpmud0 on system is 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.3.
hplip depends on libsane-hpaio (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2); however:
Version of libsane-hpaio on system is 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.3.
hplip depends on hplip-data (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2); however:
Version of hplip-data on system is 3.12.2-1No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
ubuntu3.3.
hplip depends on printer-driver-hpcups (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2); however:
Package printer-driver-hpcups is not configured yet.
hplip depends on cups (>= 1.1.20); however:
Package cups is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hplip (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of printer-driver-postscript-hp:
printer-driver-postscript-hp depends on hplip (>= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2); however:
Package hplip is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing printer-driver-postscript-hp (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up whoopsie (0.1.33) ...
FATAL: Module bbswitch not found.
invoke-rc.d: initscript whoopsie, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing whoopsie (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up rsyslog (5.8.6-1ubuntu8.5) ...
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.sbin.rsyslogd
FATAL: Module bbswitch not found.
invoke-rc.d: initscript rsyslog, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing rsyslog (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apport-gtk:
apport-gtk depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing apport-gtk (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba:
samba depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up bumblebee (3.2.1-1~preciseppa6) ...
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
FATAL: Module bbswitch not found.
invoke-rc.d: initscript bumblebeed, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing bumblebee (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bumblebee-nvidia:
bumblebee-nvidia depends on bumblebee (= 3.2.1-1~preciseppa6); however:
Package bumblebee is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bumblebee-nvidia (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-42-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
procps
cups
printer-driver-hpcups
hplip
printer-driver-postscript-hp
whoopsie
rsyslog
apport-gtk
samba
bumblebee
bumblebee-nvidia
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove procps
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.
apport-gtk : Depends: procps
cups : Depends: procps
hplip : Depends: libhpmud0 (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2) but 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.3 is to be installed
Depends: libsane-hpaio (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2) but 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.3 is to be installed
Depends: hplip-data (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2) but 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.3 is to be installed
lsb-core : Depends: procps
openssh-server : Depends: procps
ppp : Depends: procps
samba : Depends: procps
ubuntu-minimal : Depends: procps
udev : Depends: procps
wine1.4 : Depends: procps
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install procps
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
procps is already the newest version.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
hplip : Depends: libhpmud0 (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2) but 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.3 is to be installed
Depends: libsane-hpaio (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2) but 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.3 is to be installed
Depends: hplip-data (= 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2) but 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.3 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
antobbo@antobbo-xps17-ubuntu:~$
Do you reckon that reinstall the whole kernel would help at all?
thanks. The reason why i have mentioned updating the kernel was that a while back I has some different problems with y machine (the audio stopped working and similar) and a kernel update sorted out everything.
Is there a way to distinguish between universe and multiverse repositories and the other ones I shouldn't touch? Like in this list
procps
cups
printer-driver-hpcups
hplip
printer-driver-postscript-hp
whoopsie
rsyslog
apport-gtk
samba
bumblebee
bumblebee-nvidia
what's safe to remove and what's not?
Also, one more thing. I take that before removing a package I have to remove the dependencies of that package firs. Is there a way to find out the dependencies of a package and uninstall them before uninstall the actual package?
thanks
thanks. The reason why i have mentioned updating the kernel was that a while back I has some different problems with y machine (the audio stopped working and similar) and a kernel update sorted out everything.
Is there a way to distinguish between universe and multiverse repositories and the other ones I shouldn't touch?
The repositories are named as such in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
Quote:
Like in this list
procps
cups
printer-driver-hpcups
hplip
printer-driver-postscript-hp
whoopsie
rsyslog
apport-gtk
samba
bumblebee
bumblebee-nvidia
Those are packages, not repositories
Quote:
what's safe to remove and what's not?
Also, one more thing. I take that before removing a package I have to remove the dependencies of that package firs. Is there a way to find out the dependencies of a package and uninstall them before uninstall the actual package?
use apt-cache to find out about packages. Eg for a description and list of dependencies etc
Code:
apt-cache show samba
More information can be obtained with:
Code:
apt-cache showpkg samba
There are commands for specific information. Eg for reverse dependencies
Code:
apt-cache rdepends samba
You can get lots of information using apt-cache. See the man page for more information.
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