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

[Julien Lavergne]

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If I had a choice, I'll prefer to keep network-manager stack, but there is
no real support (yet ?) on LXQt. Don't having an applet on the panel to
connect, monitor, and manage WiFi networks is really annoying on a laptop.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne
Le 21 mai 2016 8:44 AM, "Julien Lavergne" <gilir at ubuntu.com> a écrit :

> I think it's a conflict between connman and network-manager. For this I
> followed Debian but as I said, nothing is fixed for now.
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
> Le 21 mai 2016 5:22 AM, "Simon Quigley" <tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com> a écrit :
>
>> 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. :)
>>
>> --
>> Simon Quigley
>> tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com
>> tsimonq2 on Freenode
>>
>
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