[lubuntu-users] broken packages

[Wilbert Heeringa]

Hi,

Thanks for your response.
I use Lubuntu 14.04.3.
Installing alacarte is just an example, I get the same problems with many
other applications which I try to install.

Regards,
Wilbert



2016-03-05 3:13 GMT+01:00 Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
> what version are you on?
> If you are using Xenial, then sometimes things don't always work right
> away.
> You can try to manually install the gnome menus, and gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 (
> possibly doing apt-cache search for those)
>
> I don't use alacarte, but if you are trying to reconfigure the menus, you
> *could* do it manually... by copying them into your $HOME and editing the
> files there.
> something like:
> cp /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu
> ~/.config/menus/lxde-applications.menu
> (sub in leafpad or whatever you like for pico)
> pico ~/.config/menus/lxde-applications.menu
> should work AFAIK
>
>
>
> On 03/04/2016 04:14 PM, Wilbert Heeringa wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I try to install alacarte as follows:
>
> sudo apt-get install alacarte
>
> But this gives the following message:
>
> 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:
>  alacarte : Depends: gnome-menus (>= 3.5.3) but it is not installable
>             Depends: gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 (>= 3.5.3) but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> Subsequently I run the following commands:
>
> sudo dpkg --configure -a
> sudo apt-get -f install
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Next in the Synaptic Package manager I choose:
> >Edit >Fix Broken Packages
> and closed the program.
>
> Then I entered again:
>
> sudo apt-get install alacarte
>
> but got the same message again.
>
> Does anybody have an idea what can be wrong?
>
> Best,
>
> Wilbert
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