I wish to install Cinnamon on my laptop. I have run the command to install Cinnamon but the download does not complete. This same problem has happened when trying to update Ubuntu and Lubuntu.
Listed below is the reject details. I am resident in NZ but have no clue why the error message appears. I have changed the download site to "international" and the nz.archive.com
site does not exist.
Your help would be gratefully received.
W: Failed to fetch http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-backports/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-backports/restricted/source/Sources 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
:~$ sudo apt-get install cinnamon cinnamon-session cinnamon-settings
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package cinnamon
E: Unable to locate package cinnamon-session
E: Unable to locate package cinnamon-settings
After following Alaa's answer, I get these errors:
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch ..ppa.launchpad.net/merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch....ppa.launchpad.net/merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
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.
cinnamon : Depends: libgjs0-libmozjs185-1.0 but it is not installable
Depends: libgjs0c (>= 1.34.0) but 1.32.0-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: cinnamon-control-center but it is not going to be installed or
gnome-control-center but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: gnome-themes-standard but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: nemo but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: cinnamon-screensaver but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: gir1.2-gjsdbus-1.0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
edit
link right underneath the text of your question. After you do that, you should then comment on my answer (using theadd comment
button right underneath my answer) telling me that you've edited your question so that I get a notification =). But anyways, I have already edited your question for you and included the errors.ppa.launchpad.net/merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa/ubuntu/dists/quantal
, which means you're running Ubuntu Quantal (Ubuntu 12.10), but you said you're running 12.04. Which one is it exactly? Because this makes my "Steps to reset your repositories" part in my answer useless. So which Ubuntu did you install? Also, since you say that you've reverted back to Ubuntu, I assume that you reinstalled, so why don't you just install the latest Ubuntu (13.04) instead? If you install it, you'll be able to dosudo apt-get install cinnamon
without additional steps.