upgrading 12.04 to 14.04 gives many problems

[Cindy-Sue Causey]

On 9/10/14, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>>
> Colin,
> Sorry I thought I had responded.
> !. When I click on installed and put wine in the search box, it shows
> nothing.
> 2 When I click on not-installed and put wine in the search box it comes
> with a long list of programs to be removed:
> colord, cuneiform, digikam, dolphin...,evince, gnome, etc.
> It then says:
> wine1.7 broken package (yes I did know!!) and when I click  under edit:
> Broken packages, it says:
> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
> caused by held packages.
> E: Unable to correct dependencies.
> However when I start ¨Software Updater¨ (why a new name??) it says no
> updates.
> It is still a puzzle for me what has happened to my system.


Ohhh, boy.... I've been there, done that but have done literally
hundreds and hundreds of things in the weeks since. Have forgotten
much of how it went down. It did not end well.. I gave up, ended up
reinstalling because it was wasting so much time and I didn't have
anything important that would be lost..

Mine came about when I uninstalled some part of wine to try and fix it
when it wasn't working.. Uninstall part was simple.. After that, it
echoed what I'm hearing you say in just these couple emails.. My
package manager couldn't find any wine and before it was over, I was
EXACTLY where you are here... it wanted to uninstall extremely
important software I KNEW should not be uninstalled.

There's an LMMS issue, I think it is.. It's a very similar deal. I
know this because I ended up there, too. I've got notes of SOME KIND,
not real good ones then but am having odd unrelated hardware
recognition issues keeping me from accessing those notes just now.
Will take a while to see what I did that caused mine here *IF* I even
made that notation. Bottom line, I did finally give up and
reinstalled.

Twice.

It's echoed across the Net so is something that needs solved SOMEHOW
if you have the patience.. :)

My experience what it was, I'll ask again.. Did you update your
package manager and/or give it wide open access to all repositories
before you ended up here? In my case, that could have *POSSIBLY*
prevented where I ended up...

Wish my news was better for you.. For what it's worth, I have learned
A TON in the process that I doubt I might have otherwise (or at least
not this fast into learning Debian and its derivatives).. :)

Cindy

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Cindy-Sue Causey
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