Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

[J.L. Blom]

On 22/09/14 08:23, Colin Law wrote:
> I guess that will have come from one of the ppas you had on precise, 
> and because it is later than the trusty one it has not been replaced. 
> I don't fully understand why it is a problem as it is later than the 
> one that the other packages depend on so I would have thought they 
> would be happy with it. However I am sure the thing to do is return it 
> to the standard version. Try this as a dry run first using sudo 
> apt-get install -s liblcms2-2=2.5-0ubuntu4 and make sure it is not 
> going to cause havoc. It may well say it has to remove some stuff so 
> make sure it doesn't look as if it is going to remove anything that 
> might cause problems. If it is just packages like openjdk for example 
> you can put them back if you need them. Assuming it looks ok then run 
> it without -s. If that goes ok then start again at the top by 
> installing wine, and if it still won't go in then work down the chain 
> (which may not be quite the same as before) till you find the 
> offending package. As a matter of interest, did you have a libreoffice 
> ppa enabled? That package may have come from that. Colin 

Colin,
Well, Problem solved!!
That was the culprit, as simple as that. And as I already suspected a 
situation apparently missed by the developers and very much 
understandable. It is an error that apparently is introduced during 
upgrading where liblcms2-2 was nor upgraded to the trusty version as the 
trusty version was older than the precise version.
So when an error saying ¨broken packages¨ occurs, and checking for 
broken packages gives no broken packages present, it is maybe an idea to 
check for consistency in package version as the parser -or linker - 
checks for package consistency and will not link libraries from 
different versions as apparently distribution version has priority over 
program- or library version.
Colin and Gary again thanks a lot for the support, which moreover was 
also a learning experience,
Greetings,
Joep