unable to install

[Amichai Rotman]

When I find myself in a a broken install / update situation, I use
'aptitude' to help me fix the conflicts.

Install it with 'sudo apt-get install aptitude'. It uses the same syntax
 as 'apt-get', so running 'sudo aptitude upgrade' will prompt you with the
conflicts and the possible solutions.

Good Luck!

Amichai.




2014-07-02 19:24 GMT+03:00 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:

> On 1 July 2014 21:30, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> >
> > Why complicate things?
> >
> > just install it directly:
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get install software-center
> >
> > You forgot the hyphen...
>
> Amichai is right, but I suspect you may have such severe package
> problems that it will not be able to install software-centre.
>
> Looking at the 2nd image you posted -- http://tinypic.com/r/derb6x/8
> -- it is failing to configure libgcc1. GCC is the GNU Compiler
> Collection; I think you should be able to live without that for a
> little while, as GCC is not installed by default on Ubuntu.
>
> I suggest you temporarily remove libgcc1, since it appears to me to be
> causing a problem.
>
> Then, with it gone, try to fix the other errors (``apt-get install
> -f'', then ``apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade -y'') and then try
> reinstall software-center (remember the hyphen!)
>
> Then after the system is fixed, reinstall libgcc1 if you need it.
>
> Here is some guidance on how to forcibly remove broken packages:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/48014/how-force-remove-when-post-installation-script-always-fail
>
>
>
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