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02-21-2017, 04:17 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2016
Posts: 26
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problem installing updates
how do I fix this?
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kde-telepathy-minimal: Depends: kde-config-telepathy-accounts (>= 15.04.0) but it is not installed
Depends: telepathy-connection-manager but it is a virtual package
Depends: telepathy-mission-control-5 (>= 1:5.12) but 1:5.16.3-1ubuntu6 is installed
This happened after I recently went from gnome to xfce to kde trying to solve another unrelated problem. Didn't have any issues going to xfce but once I went to kde I ran into this problem. It suggested I try apt-get -f I believe but that gave an error too, so did trying to fix this "kde-telepathy-minimal" broken package from synaptic. Let me know if you need more specifics but many errors all of which leave newbie me clueless. Any ideas? Thanks
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02-21-2017, 04:20 PM
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#2
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Moderator
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Arizona, USA
Distribution: Debian, EndeavourOS, OpenSUSE, KDE Neon
Posts: 4,031
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At the very least we'd need to know your sources.list, and any .list files under sources.list.d
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02-21-2017, 07:06 PM
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#4
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pictland
Distribution: Linux Mint 21 MATE
Posts: 8,048
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Did you make a system backup before you installed KDE? If so, reverting to that would be my advised course of action, followed by installing kubuntu-desktop from the Kubuntu backports PPA. Once you start getting into dependency problems like this it can get complicated to unravel.
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02-21-2017, 07:14 PM
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#5
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 20,015
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Have you tried this:
Code:
apt-get --fix-broken
From the man page:
Quote:
-f, --fix-broken
Fix. Attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT to deduce a likely solution. Any package(s) that are specified must completely correct the problem. This option is sometimes necessary when running APT for the first time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system. It is possible that a system's dependency structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention. Use of this option together with -m may produce an error in some situations.
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02-22-2017, 02:33 AM
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#6
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2012
Posts: 1,882
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Quote:
Originally Posted by juntjoo
Code:
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ precise partner
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You have two different releases in your sources.
This is like trying to mix Win7 & Win10 in one install.
Depending on the current level of breakage, best way forward (apart from restoring from a good backup) would be to remove the older one (precise) and try upgrading everything to xenial.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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02-22-2017, 04:19 AM
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#7
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pictland
Distribution: Linux Mint 21 MATE
Posts: 8,048
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Quote:
Originally Posted by descendant_command
You have two different releases in your sources.
This is like trying to mix Win7 & Win10 in one install.
Depending on the current level of breakage, best way forward (apart from restoring from a good backup) would be to remove the older one (precise) and try upgrading everything to xenial.
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Good spot.
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02-22-2017, 05:03 AM
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#8
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2016
Posts: 26
Original Poster
Rep: 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by frankbell
Have you tried this:
Code:
apt-get --fix-broken
From the man page:
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"E: Command line option --fix-broken is not understood in combination with the other options"
maybe I typed it wrong?
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02-22-2017, 05:04 AM
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#9
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2016
Posts: 26
Original Poster
Rep: 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by descendant_command
You have two different releases in your sources.
This is like trying to mix Win7 & Win10 in one install.
Depending on the current level of breakage, best way forward (apart from restoring from a good backup) would be to remove the older one (precise) and try upgrading everything to xenial.
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thanks. I don't know what precise and xenial are referring to. I installed xfce then kde. What's the relationship if any?
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02-22-2017, 05:15 AM
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#10
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2012
Posts: 1,882
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Last edited by descendant_command; 02-22-2017 at 05:18 AM.
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02-22-2017, 05:35 AM
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#11
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2016
Posts: 26
Original Poster
Rep: 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by descendant_command
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Thanks. I have xenial. That is the latest which is what I installed initially on my system. Just recently I tried installing different ... I don't know what they're called, like launchers, kde, xfce etc. So did I downgrade my system somehow or something? I was only attempting to change the skin if you will.
edit: just checked, I still have 16.0.4, xenial. How do you go about cleaning it up?
Last edited by juntjoo; 02-22-2017 at 05:40 AM.
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02-22-2017, 06:00 AM
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#12
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2012
Posts: 1,882
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Quote:
Originally Posted by juntjoo
Thanks. I have xenial. That is the latest which is what I installed initially on my system. Just recently I tried installing different ... I don't know what they're called, like launchers, kde, xfce etc
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Desktop Environment (DE).
Quote:
. So did I downgrade my system somehow or something? I was only attempting to change the skin if you will.
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You followed someone's instructions to add the repo for a much older version of ubuntu (a spectacularly bad idea).
I don't use ubuntu so not sure if kde is in the main repo, but you need to stick to the same release version if adding repo's to your list of sources.
Quote:
edit: just checked, I still have 16.0.4, xenial. How do you go about cleaning it up?
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Remove anything not xenial, update your package lists ('apt-get update' or such) then 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or such.
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02-22-2017, 06:37 AM
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#13
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2016
Posts: 26
Original Poster
Rep: 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by descendant_command
You followed someone's instructions to add the repo for a much older version of ubuntu (a spectacularly bad idea).
I don't use ubuntu so not sure if kde is in the main repo, but you need to stick to the same release version if adding repo's to your list of sources.
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I used this guide: http://www.tecmint.com/install-xfce-...comment-869696which didn't work, so someone suggested: "sudo apt install xubuntu-desktop" which worked, then I did "sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop" on my own figuring it would do the same as my previous move but with KDE. At which point did mess things up? I don't know what you mean by main repo. All I am aware of is that I'm attempting to change the desktop environments. Thanks for helping me understand all this.
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02-22-2017, 06:42 AM
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#14
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2016
Posts: 26
Original Poster
Rep: 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by descendant_command
Remove anything not xenial, update your package lists ('apt-get update' or such) then 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or such.
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So I'll go into synaptic and remove what exactly? Everything related to "precise"? Not exactly sure how to go about removing "anything NOT" xenial. Thanks
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02-23-2017, 04:31 AM
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#15
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2012
Posts: 1,882
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You want to edit your sources.list to remove the repo's that aren't for xenial.
After updating the package lists, synaptic should show installed packages that aren't available from a currently enabled repo as "obsolete or locally installed" - removing them should be a good idea.
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