Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

[Colin Law]

On 21 September 2014 15:19, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 15/09/14 18:08, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> Most unlikely to be anything major, it is most likely just something
>> inappropriate got installed when you re-enabled the old repositories and we
>> have to get to the bottom of that. When I said follow the chain down I meant
>> go on down below wine1.7, however NoOp is more knowledgable than myself and
>> will likely get to the solution quicker than me, so I suggest following his
>> advice. Do not despair. The only reason this is taking a long time is due to
>> the delays going backwards and forwards. We have only actually run half a
>> dozen or so commands since we started. Colin
>
>
>
> Colin, Gary,
> Finally I have some time to continue my  search to install wine. Up till now
> my conclusion is that possibly some correct - but seldom occurring -
> configuration of my configuration that has been overlooked in the
> programming of apt-get. Therefore it gives this general error apparently as
> it is too exceptional.
> To be sure I repeated all steps:
> 1 Removed all ppa references to wine.
> Then did the whole sequence as Colin had already mentioned:
> ______________________________________________________________________
> joep at laguna:~/Documenten/Databases$ sudo apt-get install wine
> [sudo] password for joep:
> 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:
>  wine : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> joep at laguna:~/Documenten/Databases$ sudo apt-get install wine1.6
> 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:
>  wine1.6 : Depends: wine1.6-i386 (= 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4)
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> joep at laguna:~/Documenten/Databases$ sudo apt-get install wine1.6-i386
> 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:
>  wine1.6-i386:i386 : Depends: liblcms2-2:i386 (>= 2.2+git20110628) but it is
> not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> joep at laguna:~/Documenten/Databases$ sudo apt-get install lblcms2-2:i386
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package lblcms2-2
> joep at laguna:~/Documenten/Databases$ sudo apt-get install liblcms2-2:i386
> 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:
>  openjdk-7-jre-headless : Depends: liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628) but it is
> not going to be installed
> *E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
> by held *packages.
> joep at laguna:~/Documenten/Databases$ sudo apt-get install
> openjdk-7-jre-headless
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> openjdk-7-jre-headless is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I think we are getting to the core of the issue.  What do you get for
apt-cache policy openjdk-7-jre-headless
apt-cache policy liblcms2-2

and, if that shows that liblcms2-2 is not installed
sudo apt-get install liblcms2-2

Colin


> joep at laguna:~/Documenten/Databases$
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> The most interesting error :PkgProblemResolver that that says that packages
> are held, generating broken packages, i.e. the first error. However, nowher
> is indicated which package is held. In the list Gary gave
> (http://paste.ubuntu.com/8368191/) there is a long list of installed
> packages but which one is missing is not indicated.
> Ans as you see it is a perfect circle outcome. The last one is already
> correctly installed.
> I did the things Gary recommended and it gave a perfectly normal output:
> _____________________________________________
> dpkg -l | grep liblcms
> ii  liblcms1:amd64 1.19.dfsg-1.2ubuntu5
> amd64 Little CMS color management library
> ii  liblcms1:i386 1.19.dfsg-1.2ubuntu5
> i386 Little CMS color management library
> ii  liblcms2-2:amd64 2.6-3ubuntu1~precise1
> amd64 Little CMS 2 color management library
> ________________________________________________________
> So: what´s next?
> Thanks again for your tenacity
>
> Joep
>
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