Trying to install network-manager
Within the last couple of days, I have tried to install network-manager on a Debian Jessie system as follows :-
apt-get update apt-get install network-manger but it failed as follows :- Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: network-manager : Depends: libpam-systemd but it is not installable Depends: policykit-1 Recommends: ppp (>= 2.4.6) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: dnsmasq-base but it is not going to be installed Recommends: crda Recommends: iputils-arping but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Can anyone please help me to understand why I cannot install network-manager. Thanks. |
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Can you install a previous version of network-manager? Are you sure that you updated and not just updated the package list/database. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/d...todate.en.html That's what it looks like. |
Trying to install network-manager
Thanks for your reply.
apt-get update apt-get install <package-name> is the standard way to install a package contained in the Debian release currently used. I now think my Debian package database may possibly be slightly screwed up. |
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You can try the solutions suggested in this thread. It is in the Ubuntu subforum but since Ubuntu is based on Debian it should also be applicable in your case. Hope this helps. |
Trying to install network manager
Thanks for your reply.
I have tried the following, if that helps :- % cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile' #deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free #deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian import # Jessie backports #deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free % apt-cache policy network-manager network-manager: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.9.10.0-7 Version table: 0.9.10.0-7 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages |
did you run
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apt-get upgrade |
Trying to install network-manager
No, I just ran :-
apt-get update apt-get install network-manager |
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade Then try to install it. Once NEW packages are available they tend to remove the availability of the OLD packages from the servers. When running testing or sid or experimental, there are times when updates can be out of sync, but generally get corrected in a timely manner. When running stable, that shouldn't be an issue. Baring extras like backports, or a really slow connection to where new updates are available before you complete downloading the old updates. Having been on dialup, probably a decade longer than I should have been, I tend to download only, then update and download again. # apt-get update # apt-get -d dist-upgrade # apt-get update # apt-get -d dist-upgrade # apt-get dist-upgrade Just to make sure I have all the current stuff before I apply the updates. OLD habits. |
BTW, jessie is quite OLD at this point. Stretch was the previous "stable", with buster being the current "stable" as of this month. Which probably puts jessie near 5 years and out of support???
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Trying to install network-manager
Thanks for all the contributions.
The only version of network-manager available for Jessie is network-manager (0.9.10.0-7). I realise that Debian Jessie is oldoldstable and support ends completely next year. I intend to update to Stretch a bit later this year. |
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