[lubuntu-users] broken packages

[Wilbert Heeringa]

I found it difficult to decide about this.

I just completely reinstalled Lubuntu 14.04, now everything works fine
again.

Regards,
Wilbert

2016-03-05 9:32 GMT+01:00 <leszek.lesner at web.de>:

> Hi,
>
> do you have any ppas activated that might interfere?
>
>
>
> Am Sa. Mär. 5 09:22:32 2016 GMT+0100 schrieb 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards
> > >
> > >
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