On 28 August 2012 21:42, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Greg Thomas wrote:
Neither of those worked :(
So what happened? If you report back we might be able to fix it!
"apt-get -f remove update-manager-kde" gave exactly the same as without the -f flag - i.e.
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. libasound2: Breaks: libasound2-plugins (< 1.0.24) but 1.0.22-0ubuntu6 is to be installed libglib2.0-0: Breaks: gnome-control-center (< 1:3) but 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed Breaks: gvfs (< 1.8) but 1.6.1-0ubuntu1build1 is to be installed libgnome-keyring0: Breaks: gnome-keyring (< 3.0) but 2.92.92.is.2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1 is to be installed libpango1.0-0: Breaks: plymouth (< 0.8.2-2ubuntu19) but 0.8.2-2ubuntu2.2 is to be installed ppp: Breaks: network-manager (<= 0.8.0.999-1) but 0.8-0ubuntu3.3 is to be installed Breaks: network-manager-pptp (<= 0.8.0.999-1) but 0.8-0ubuntu3 is to be installed E: Broken packages
"apt-get -f install" did nothing.
That's never the way to do something like this! One of the nice things about using systems with reasonably sane package managers is because it lets you upgrade without doing things like a clean install.
Never say never. I suspect it would be quicker to back up my data and re-install than spend hours poking at packages ...
Greg