Questions tagged [dependencies]
Use this tag when asking about managing and resolving dependencies. In Ubuntu most applications have dependencies, programs that they depend on to run correctly. This means that installing a package sometimes requires other packages to be installed, and removing packages will cause others to be removed by APT to prevent them from breaking.
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Can't install Steam because of unmet dependencies
Today I tried to install Steam using sudo apt-get install steam.
It didn't work and showed me this error:
barend@barend-ubu:~$ sudo apt-get install steam
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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Problems with apt dependencies after install of python 3.5
I downloaded and compiled the latest python, 3.5, and installed it with checkinstall. Now I am getting a ton of packages that have missing dependencies in apt.
apt-xapian-index : Depends: python (&...
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How can I tell if I need a Snap package?
Just upgraded to 20.04, Focal Fossa, which uses Gnome 3.36, from 19.10. I also have two Snaps of Gnome installed, gnome-3-32-1804 and gnome-3-34-1804. It is unclear to me if these Snaps are actually ...
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How to solve missing libmng.so.1 in Trusty (14.04) Package is no more available
I would like to run SoulseekQT. However unfortunately one of the dependencies is libmng1, which is no more included in Trusty. sudo apt-get install libmng.so.1 or libmng1 or libmng1:i386 in Trusty (14....
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broken linux-generic or linux-headers-generic dependencies
I can't install Ubuntu because of this.
As I found there is no linux-headers-5.15.0-76-generic package in the repositories. What I can do to resolve this problem?
I'm using Ubuntu server 22.04 Jammy
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Failed to write (No space left on device) [duplicate]
I am working on an Ubuntu virtualbox and trying to install curl using sudo apt-get install curl -y.
I got a response saying there were unmet dependencies and saying You might want to run 'apt-get -f ...
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Service not avaliable Unity3d error in Kubuntu
I'm trying to use Unity3d in Kubuntu, but I'm getting this error:
Service not avaliable, please try again later.
I've found this post:
Certain systems may experience "Service unavailable" errors ...
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How to install 32-bit deb package on 64-bit ubuntu?
I have Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit installed and I have to install 32-bit deb package on it. It depends on other 32 bit libraries. I overcome this with getlibs:
sudo getlibs -i ./hp-netconnect_1.2-12_i386....
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How do I install cinnamon on Ubuntu server?
How do I install cinnamon and mate on ubuntu server 12.04?
What are the dependencies?
When I install cinnamon it doesn't start when I start the system and when I try to use it with startx command i ...
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I want to uninstall Python3 and just use 2.7
I typed in this to the terminal:
sudo apt-get remove python3
And it gave me the following output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The ...
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Large snap packages because of dependencies
Snap packages each have their own copy of dependencies. This means there are lots of packages in each snap, which would equate to large package sizes. Wouldn't this mean that snaps would be so much ...
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Cannot update/install other software after failing to install LibreOffice
I tried to install LibreOffice through the software centre but an error occurred and the installation failed. Now it is shown as "installed" in software centre while it's actually not. I realised it ...
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will apt-get autoremove break other dependencies?
I want to use apt-get autoremove to remove liba for instance, but I'm not sure whether it is smart enough to preserve other dependencies. For instance, if liba depends on libb, while libc also depends ...
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Unmet dependencies in Ubuntu 12.04?
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg: Depends: libavcodec-extra-53 (>= 4:0.7-1) but 4:0.7.2.1ubuntu2 is to be installed
Depends: ...
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How to remove the "unmet dependencies error" about cups while installing a package?
While installing octave or wxmaxima, I see this error in the terminal
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cups : Depends: ...
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Cannot Install Wine32 unmet dependencies
Hi I am trying install wine32 and it is complaining of unmet dependencies:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libdevmapper1.02.1 : Depends: libselinux1 (>= 3.1~) but it is not going ...
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Unable to fix unmet dependencies
I installed (not successfully) chrome 32-bit and didn't know that my OS type was 64-bit. I tried to fix it with this command sudo apt-get -f install but there was an error.
Every time I install a ...
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Can't install anything anymore, unmet dependencies for linux-image-
Whenever I try to install anything I get the following message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f ...
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Snapshot and rollback of apt-installed packages
Is there a way to take a snapshot of the packages installed with apt/apt-get on a Debian/Ubuntu system, and to roll back to that snapshot later?
My use case is the following: I'd like to write a ...
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Installing Brasero removes 100+ packages and impairs internet and display manager
I was thinking to have solved one problem with Paraview but have come across a bigger one with Brasero.
A few days ago I wanted to install Paraview (amd64) in my computer (x68_64, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) ...
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Ignoring specific unmet dependencies with aptitude?
This is my situation: I've installed a program called ipe "forcably" through a deb package; the reason for this is that ipe depends on texlive-latex-base, however, I already maintain a separate ...
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Cannot download softwares from the Software Center
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my computer that has Windows7 on it as well.
I was first trying to upload Chromium and I got this error:
Package dependencies cannot be resolved
This error could be ...
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Jammy (22.04) won't install wine32
Been trying to install wine32 for days without luck.
This is my output:
root@nico-laptop:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt install wine32
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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Can't solve unmet dependencies
I try to solve a problem of mine and I have some difficulties.
I can't install/remove/dist-upgrade/clean/autoclean any package.
When I try to run sudo apt-get -f install to fix unmet dependencies I ...
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Problems installing pandas
I am trying to install pandas on Ubuntu 14.04. I seem to have a problem with dependencies, but I haven't been able to install them. I am trying to install pandas via pip as follows:
vroni@zargedu4:~$ ...
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How to list all packages installed as dependencies in Terminal, and what installed them?
Is there a way in Terminal to list all programs which have not been installed by me, but other programs as necessary dependencies? And can I at the same time view which programs they were installed by?...
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Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution)
After running apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, it seems my install is broken.
root@l1k:/home/kali# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Samba won't install because of broken packages
I am running Ubuntu Server 14.04.4 and I didn't install Samba with the original OS setup. I would like to install it now, but I keep getting a error about broken packages. It appears that the main ...
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Apt not installing most known packages
I have installed a fresh Ubuntu 14.04.03 and I am running into a problem I have never had before.
First thing I did when logging into the new install was apt-get update and upgrade. Then I wanted to ...
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Having trouble with apt-get upgrade and removing KDE Plasma
I am running Ubuntu 15.10 with Gnome DE. I installed KDE plasma to try it out but sudo apt-get upgrade started giving me errors so I ppa-purged the kde ppa and removed kubuntu desktop with the ...
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E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages while installing libgl1-mesa-dev for qt
I ran sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dev and received the error message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgl1-mesa-dev : Depends: mesa-common-dev (= 11.2.0-1ubuntu2) but it is not ...
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Problem while installing vlc player
I can't install vlc player on my Ubuntu(14.04).
I have read this and try to run the commands, but while I run this command:
sudo apt-get install vlc
I got something like this:
Reading package ...
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Not able to install g++ in ubuntu 13.10 because of broken packages
When I try to install g++ in my machine I am getting the following message.
support:/$ sudo apt-get install g++
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information....
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Dependencies | not able to install from Ubuntu Software Center | Ubuntu 14.04
I am not able to download and install programs (including vlc and unity tweak tool) from the Ubuntu Software Center. Every time i try to get them, there is a dependency error and i am completely lost ...
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failing to install oracle-java7-installer,displaying 'E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)'
I was setting up up android-studio referring to this website. While installing oracle-java7-installer, this error is displayed:
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
[sudo] password for cyan:
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packages can't be installed because of dependencies problem
I have Ubuntu 22.04 installed. After adding debian bullseye to the source.list there are some updates that i cant install:
If i try to install them, there are error msg because there are dependencies(...
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Virtual Box 5.1.22 Installation Failure [closed]
each time i try install the virtualbox 5.1.22 application it fails because of the following dependencies:
Please help.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
virtualbox-5.1 : Depends: ...
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Trelby not installing in 16.04
Trying to install trelby by using sudo dpkg -i trelby_2.2_all.deb produces this error:
Selecting previously unselected package trelby.
(Reading database ... 267174 files and directories currently ...
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The following packages have unmet dependencies: can't install any software. Ubuntu 16:04
I have unmet dependencies when trying to install gitlab, VLC, GParted and other packages.
openssh-server :
Depends: openssh-client (= 1:7.2p2-4)
Depends: openssh-sftp-server but it is not ...
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Errors were encountered while processing: jitsi-meet-tokens
I've been using Ubuntu for a few years now, but I just installed Version 16.04, and I've been having a lot of issues. I'm not a command line expert, but I tried to install some software last night, ...
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GIMP Package dependencies cannot be resolved
I need a little help from some friends. I installed GIMP-2.7 via PPA when I already had GIMP-2.6 installed via software center, and then I wanted to use 2.6 again. I am using Ubuntu 11.04. I removed ...
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Incompatibility of chip architecture?
Whenever i try to install virtualbox on my Ubuntu machine (arm), it gives me errors like-
Virtualbox-6.1:amd64 depends on zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4).
virtualbox-6.1:amd64 depends on python (<< 2.8)....
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How do I to resolve unmet dependencies to uninstall and reinstall package
I have tried several askubuntu threads but yet to no avail none have all met qualifications.
I installed allvideodownloader, and found a better version an earlier version; I downloaded from software-...
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VLC package dependencies cannot be resolved [duplicate]
When I try to install VLC media player this pops up:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc: Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.0.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) but 2.0.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 is to be installed
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Every attempt to install SteadyFlow package returns error code (1)
Every attempt to install the steadyflow package returns the following:
$ sudo apt-get install steadyflow
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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"Packages have unmet dependencies" while installing Gimp 2.7.5 on Ubuntu 11.10
I have been trying to install Gimp 2.7.5 for a few days now, but keep getting this message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gimp: Depends: python-gtk2 (>= 2.8.0) but 2.24.0-2 is to ...
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Errors during installation of ubuntu-restricted-extras
During an installation of ubuntu-restricted-extras which was initiated by running this command:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
I got these errors:
Selecting previously unselected ...
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How to remove a specific package from dependency list of another package?
Since I'm using Qt5 I want to uninstall all the qt4 libs. I tried it with the following command
sudo apt-get remove libqt4-*
which attempts to remove all the qt4 libs but in addition it wants to ...
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Why can't I install a package with a pinned dependency?
I am trying to install a package from my company's private Debian package repository, which is a Nexus artifact repository. This repository contains a package called ceres with two available versions: ...
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BRACKETS removed by upgrade to 17.04 and now I can't install it
I had Ubuntu 16.04 but when I upgraded it to 17.04, during the process brackets editor was removed, and now I can't install it.
$ sudo apt install brackets
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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