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How do I overcome these package dependency problems?

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http://askubuntu.com – I upgraded to 11.10 and lost power during the upgrade. After bringing the box back up, I attempted to continue the upgrade and at one point did a partial upgrade to resolved dependency issues that I thought at the time were related to may failed upgrade. Now I have a working system for the most part. The problem is I can not install the 'acroread' package anymore because of dependency errors: ~ $ sudo apt-get install acroread Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you (HowTos)

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I get these errors when I try to upgrade the packages installed on my Ubuntu system:

m@m-desktop ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

3 packages not upgrading 24 weeks 3 days ago

VastOne wrote:Need a bit more information... Perhaps a paste of what terminal is saying when you do the update.I don't really have any more information other than that...The output isn't anything out of the ordinary aside from the "3 not upgraded" part, and the apt logs don't show anything.nymph% sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists...

I had installed cinnamon 1.4 on ubuntu 12.04 earlier but i couldnt upgrade it to 1.6+.. so i uninstalled (and purged) it to do a fresh install.. but now i am getting an error as follows

sudo apt-get install cinnamon Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

hello,

I'm trying to upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 but nothing happens. the GUI "update manager" tells me that I might upgrade to 12.04 but when I click on the button nothing happens.

From shell this is what I see:

Quote:

sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

I'm using 13.04 Raring amd64 and this latest upgrade has me disturbed

it failed to configure a few packages somewhere down the link so as I was trying to manually resolve them and now nothing will launch via console or gui.

Here is exactly what happened from the point I discovered the failed upgrade to now.

Upgrade from 11.10 failed 41 weeks 6 days ago

I attempted to update my system from Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686) with the do-release-upgrade command.

This has caused problems and I am left with this error:

root@ubuntu:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies...

WINE 1.5 unmet dependencies 1 week 3 days ago

I'm having an annoying problem with WINE 1.5. Here's what it says when I sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade:Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

This is my second install ever (firefox went smooth). This is happening:

DELETED USER NAME:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

After upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 I am trying to install different packages. For instance ia32-libs and skype (4.0).

When trying to install these, I am getting the 'Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages' error message.

Output of commands: sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...