<div dir="ltr">Re: broken packages <div> </div><div>I've had good success asking synaptic package manager to find and fix broken packages[1]</div><div> </div><div>Regards,</div><div>Phill.</div><div>1. <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto#How_to_fix_broken_packages">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto#How_to_fix_broken_packages</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 5 March 2016 at 12:00, <<a href="mailto:lubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">lubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Lubuntu-users mailing list submissions to <a href="mailto:lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a href="mailto:lubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a href="mailto:lubuntu-users-owner@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-users-owner@lists.ubuntu.com</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Lubuntu-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: broken packages (<a href="mailto:leszek.lesner@web.de">leszek.lesner@web.de</a>) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 08:32:06 +0000 From: <a href="mailto:leszek.lesner@web.de">leszek.lesner@web.de</a> To: <a href="mailto:wjheeringa@gmail.com">wjheeringa@gmail.com</a> Cc: <a href="mailto:lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Subject: Re: [lubuntu-users] broken packages Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:mdyenu.o3k51k.1hgf02y-qmf@web.de">mdyenu.o3k51k.1hgf02y-qmf@web.de</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi, do you have any ppas activated that might interfere? Am Sa. M?r. 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 <<a href="mailto:israeldahl@gmail.com">israeldahl@gmail.com</a>>: > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > Lubuntu-users mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a> > > > > > ------------------------------ -- Lubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a> End of Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 3 ******************************************** </blockquote></div> </div>