problem installing updates

juntjoo · 02-21-2017, 04:17 PM

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

Timothy Miller · 02-21-2017, 04:20 PM

At the very least we'd need to know your sources.list, and any .list files under sources.list.d

juntjoo · 02-21-2017, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Timothy Miller

At the very least we'd need to know your sources.list, and any .list files under sources.list.d

Thanks

are you referring to these:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security multiverse
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ precise partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ precise partner
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ xenial partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ xenial partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ xenial partner

I got them from the file I believe you're referring to I found off a quick google search. I am quite newb.

otherwise in another folder I found this:

http://img-cdn.filefactory.com/embed...cfc0lcfa8d.png

hydrurga · 02-21-2017, 07:06 PM

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.

frankbell · 02-21-2017, 07:14 PM

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.

descendant_command · 02-22-2017, 02:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juntjoo

Code:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ precise partner

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.

hydrurga · 02-22-2017, 04:19 AM

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.

Good spot.

juntjoo · 02-22-2017, 05:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

Have you tried this:

Code:

apt-get --fix-broken

From the man page:

"E: Command line option --fix-broken is not understood in combination with the other options"

maybe I typed it wrong?

juntjoo · 02-22-2017, 05:04 AM

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.

thanks. I don't know what precise and xenial are referring to. I installed xfce then kde. What's the relationship if any?

descendant_command · 02-22-2017, 05:15 AM

http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/
http://releases.ubuntu.com/xenial/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases

juntjoo · 02-22-2017, 05:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by descendant_command

http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/
http://releases.ubuntu.com/xenial/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases

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?

descendant_command · 02-22-2017, 06:00 AM

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

Desktop Environment (DE).

Quote:

. So did I downgrade my system somehow or something? I was only attempting to change the skin if you will.

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?

Remove anything not xenial, update your package lists ('apt-get update' or such) then 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or such.

juntjoo · 02-22-2017, 06:37 AM

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.

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.

juntjoo · 02-22-2017, 06:42 AM

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.

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

descendant_command · 02-23-2017, 04:31 AM

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.