[lubuntu-devel] Installing lubuntu-qt-desktop broke my system

[Simon Quigley]

Greetings Julien,

I recently tried to remove my metapackage and install the one you
uploaded, and it failed with the following error:

$ sudo apt install lubuntu-qt-desktop
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:
 lubuntu-qt-desktop : Depends: cmst but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I tried to install cmst but I got:

$ sudo apt install cmst
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:
 cmst : Depends: connman but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I then tried to install connman and I got:

$ sudo apt install connman

Reading package lists... Done


Building dependency tree


Reading state information... Done



Suggested packages:


  indicator-network


The following packages will be REMOVED:


  network-manager resolvconf ubuntu-minimal
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  connman
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/376 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9022 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

I blindly did this earlier and it broke all network functionality. Also,
removing ubuntu-minimal really isn't good.

I looked in the dependencies for that package and cmst was in fact
listed. Just out of curiosity, what was your reasoning for doing that?
What does cmst do that warrants removing those packages?

Just curious, before we start getting an ISO and such. I'm just making
sure everything doesn't break. :)

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Simon Quigley
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