<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>Thanks for your response.<br>I use Lubuntu 14.04.3.<br>Installing alacarte is just an example, I get the same problems with many other applications which I try to install.<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Wilbert<br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-03-05 3:13 GMT+01:00 Israel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:israeldahl@gmail.com" target="_blank">israeldahl@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>Hi,<br>
      what version are you on?<br>
      If you are using Xenial, then sometimes things don't always work
      right away.<br>
      You can try to manually install the gnome menus, and
      gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 ( possibly doing apt-cache search for those)<br>
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      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.<br>
      something like:<br>
      cp /etc/xdg/menus/lxde-applications.menu
      ~/.config/menus/lxde-applications.menu<br>
      (sub in leafpad or whatever you like for pico)<br>
      pico ~/.config/menus/lxde-applications.menu<br>
      should work AFAIK<div><div class="h5"><br>
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      On 03/04/2016 04:14 PM, Wilbert Heeringa wrote:<br>
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                  <div>Dear all,<br>
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                  I try to install alacarte as follows:<br>
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                  <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">sudo apt-get install
                    alacarte<br>
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                But this gives the following message:<br>
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                <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">Reading package
                  lists... Done<br>
                  Building dependency tree       <br>
                  Reading state information... Done<br>
                  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean
                  that you have<br>
                  requested an impossible situation or if you are using
                  the unstable<br>
                  distribution that some required packages have not yet
                  been created<br>
                  or been moved out of Incoming.<br>
                  The following information may help to resolve the
                  situation:<br>
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                  The following packages have unmet dependencies:<br>
                   alacarte : Depends: gnome-menus (>= 3.5.3) but it
                  is not installable<br>
                              Depends: gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 (>= 3.5.3)
                  but it is not installable<br>
                  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken
                  packages.</span><br>
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              Subsequently I run the following commands:<br>
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              <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">sudo dpkg --configure -a<br>
                sudo apt-get -f install<br>
                sudo apt-get update<br>
                sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</span><br>
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            Next in the Synaptic Package manager I choose:<br>
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          >Edit >Fix Broken Packages<br>
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        and closed the program.<br>
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          <div>Then I entered again:<br>
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            <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">sudo apt-get install
              alacarte</span><br>
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          <div>but got the same message again.<br>
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          <div>Does anybody have an idea what can be wrong?<br>
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          <div>Best,<br>
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          <div>Wilbert<br>
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