The ease of removing ubuntu-desktop

[Conrad Knauer]

Wait... did you *start* with Dapper, or Breezy? (if the former, why did you
dist-upgrade?)

Also, please paste a copy of your current sources.list file into a reply.

CK

On 8/2/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> OK, I needed to install wine on a Dapper system so I simply added
> universe and multiverse to sources.list, and ran "apt-get update &&
> apt-get dist-upgrade".  The package manager removed totem and
> ubuntu-desktop, and now refuses to install them!
>
> Calculating upgrade...Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED
>   totem ubuntu-desktop
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   eog file-roller firefox firefox-gnome-support gedit gedit-common
> gnome-about gnome-accessibility-themes
>   gnome-applets gnome-applets-data gnome-desktop-data gnome-games
> gnome-games-data gnome-panel
>   gnome-panel-data gnome-themes gtk2-engines-clearlooks gtk2-engines-crux
> gtk2-engines-highcontrast
>   gtk2-engines-industrial gtk2-engines-lighthouseblue gtk2-engines-mist
> gtk2-engines-pixbuf
>   gtk2-engines-redmond95 gtk2-engines-smooth gtk2-engines-thinice
> gtkhtml3.8 ia32-libs
>   ia32-libs-openoffice.org language-pack-en language-pack-en-base
> language-pack-gnome-en
>   language-pack-gnome-en-base libeel2-2 libeel2-data libfreetype6
> libgnome-desktop-2 libgnomeui-0
>   libgnomeui-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common
> libgtkhtml3.8-15 libgtksourceview-common
>   libgtksourceview1.0-0 libnautilus-burn3 libnspr4 libnss3
> libpanel-applet2-0 libtiff4 nautilus-cd-burner
>   yelp zenity
>
> (installs the updates)
>
> $ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop totem
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... 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.
>   totem: Depends: totem-gstreamer (>= 1.4.3-0ubuntu1) but 1.4.1-0ubuntu4is to be installedor
>                   totem-xine (>= 1.4.3-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be
> installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> And no matter what I do, I cannot get ubuntu-desktop to install now.  It
> tells me that "totem-gstreamer is already the latest version" even
> though totem depends on a newer version!
>
> HELP!
>
> Lee
>
>
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