Re: ”Package dependencies can not be solved”

[Liam Proven]

On 3 December 2011 17:22, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/12/3 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>> On 3 December 2011 16:47, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ”This error could be caused by required additional software packages
>>> which are missing or not installable. Furthermore there could be a
>>> conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be
>>> installed at the same time.”
>>>
>>> Details:
>>> ”The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>> language-pack-gnome-sv; language-pack-sv;”
>>>
>>> First time I got this was when doing one of those updates using the
>>> update manager. I thought that maybe some of the stuff I installed
>>> myself could be the reason, so I installed Ubuntu 11.10 again, but
>>> from scratch this time (except that I kept my old /home partition).
>>> When starting up I was informed that the Swedish language support was
>>> not complete and I was asked to fix it. I said yes and after a while
>>> this error message popped up again.
>>>
>>> Is this fixable or should I just wait for the next update and hope
>>> they fixed it…?
>>
>> Have you tried to do this?
>>
>> sudo apt-get install -f
>
> I tried it in my old install and it didn't help. I didn't try it since
> the fresh install though, but I will now. Wait… :)
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 to upgrade, 0 to install, 0 to remove and 252 to not upgrade.
>
> (The last line was in Swedish, so the above is my translation of it).

Inga problem. Jag kan förstå en lite svenska. :¬)


> Nothing more happened, so I'll try to install complete language
> support again now:
> Clicking Language Support
> A dialogue box pops up, saying something like this, I translate from Swedish:
> ”Your language support is not fully installed
> Some translations are available for your selected languages and they
> are still not installed. Do you want to install them now?
> language-pack-sv
> language-pack-gnome-sv
> language-pack-sv
> [Remind me later] [Install]”
>
> I clicked Install.
> By the way, why are language-pack-sv mentioned twice…?
>
> ”Package dependencies cannot be resolved” and so on, in other words: FAIL.
>
> Thanks for the input, though.

I think this is a known problem - I had the same error on my clean
install of 64-bit Oneiric. Don't know what the solution is, though,
but it might be worth hunting through Launchpad...

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