Hello all. For reasons I won't go into here, I re-installed my OS over the weekend. It's all up and running fine, but I want to install a few more pieces of software, but cannot. I tried to install the .deb for both Chrome and Vivaldi, but both debs erred in the Discover app with "unmet dependencies."
Later yesterday, I tried to install Wine so I could play some Windows-only games. I tried sudo apt install wine64, but got the error:
I thought perhaps it was due to my repositories, so I enabled some, and disabled some others, no change. I already had Synaptic Package Manager installed, so I opened that to get a better look under the hood. I was able to locate wine64 in Synaptic Package Manager. When I tried to install it, I got the error
Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
So, naturally I tried to use Synaptic's "Fix broken packages" feature, but I got the error:
Reboot, no change.
I went here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/2232...roken-packages
They say to enter
dpkg --get-selections | grep hold
I get no output from that command. So, I thought I'd follow the second bit of advice on that page, and just
sudo aptitude install wine64
and it turns out aptitude isn't installed. Can't install that either. GAH!
What might have led to this, but I'm not sure it plays a role:
I installed Kodi from Discover. It worked well, but there are no music visualizers out of the box. Discover couldn't find them. I added the Kodi PPA, and Discover still couldn't find them. That's when I installed Synaptic Package Manager. Synaptic found the visualizers, but refused to install them because it found repeat packages in multiple PPAs. This is when I disabled all repositories, minus Team Kodi. I refreshed, and successfully installed my visualizers. Yay. I went into my repositories, and set everything back the way it was - or so I thought.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw all the repositories. I'm at work, so I don't remember them all, but (skipping the source ones) there's ubuntu-main, security-main, ubuntu-universe, partners-main, multiverse-main, ubuntu-updates-main... I can't even remember them all. Synaptic asked me if I was sure every time I tried to enable a universe source.
Can someone help? Is my sources.list just screwed up? I only added three PPAs (Kodi, Nvidia, and PulseEffects) to the original list. I tried to enable every single deb source, but I get errors when trying to refresh afterward. Do I need to delete mine and create a fresh one? Can anyone tell me specifically which repositories should be on in 18.04 on a fresh system? -or maybe can someone point me where to just download a fresh sources.list to copy/paste? Am I even barking up the right tree?
Later yesterday, I tried to install Wine so I could play some Windows-only games. I tried sudo apt install wine64, but got the error:
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package wine64
E: Unable to locate package wine64
Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
So, naturally I tried to use Synaptic's "Fix broken packages" feature, but I got the error:
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
I went here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/2232...roken-packages
They say to enter
dpkg --get-selections | grep hold
I get no output from that command. So, I thought I'd follow the second bit of advice on that page, and just
sudo aptitude install wine64
and it turns out aptitude isn't installed. Can't install that either. GAH!
What might have led to this, but I'm not sure it plays a role:
I installed Kodi from Discover. It worked well, but there are no music visualizers out of the box. Discover couldn't find them. I added the Kodi PPA, and Discover still couldn't find them. That's when I installed Synaptic Package Manager. Synaptic found the visualizers, but refused to install them because it found repeat packages in multiple PPAs. This is when I disabled all repositories, minus Team Kodi. I refreshed, and successfully installed my visualizers. Yay. I went into my repositories, and set everything back the way it was - or so I thought.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw all the repositories. I'm at work, so I don't remember them all, but (skipping the source ones) there's ubuntu-main, security-main, ubuntu-universe, partners-main, multiverse-main, ubuntu-updates-main... I can't even remember them all. Synaptic asked me if I was sure every time I tried to enable a universe source.
Can someone help? Is my sources.list just screwed up? I only added three PPAs (Kodi, Nvidia, and PulseEffects) to the original list. I tried to enable every single deb source, but I get errors when trying to refresh afterward. Do I need to delete mine and create a fresh one? Can anyone tell me specifically which repositories should be on in 18.04 on a fresh system? -or maybe can someone point me where to just download a fresh sources.list to copy/paste? Am I even barking up the right tree?
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