Unmet dependency error while installing Cinnamon

Question

I added the required PPA for Cinnamon. Now when I run sudo apt-get install cinnamon, I get the unmet dependencies error.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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:
 cinnamon : Depends: gir1.2-muffin-3.0 but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libcogl5 (>= 1.7.4) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libmuffin0 (>= 1.0.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any suggestions?

It's telling you right there what's wrong.. unmet dependencies — Uri Herrera, Mar 19 '12 at 19:01
possible duplicate of How do I install the Cinnamon Desktop? — Uri Herrera, Mar 19 '12 at 19:01
Did you run sudo apt-get update ? If not, give it a try and then try installing cinnamon again. — Panther, Mar 19 '12 at 19:08
Try sudo apt-get install cinnamon muffin instead. That used to be the way to install it, might still be true for 11.10 (versus 12.04). — Chan-Ho Suh, Mar 19 '12 at 19:15
"The" required PPA? There's actually more than one floating around... one has been decreed the more "official" one however. So which PPA are you using? The more "official" one has combined, as I recall from the last time trying cinnamon, the cinnamon and muffin packages, so I'm wondering a bit. — Chan-Ho Suh, Mar 19 '12 at 19:18
actually... i added all the ppas which i found on the net... even the official one from their site... — PyariBilli, Mar 19 '12 at 20:12
sudo apt-get install cinnamon muffin also gives the same error — PyariBilli, Mar 19 '12 at 20:12
Use the following PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gwendal-lebihan-dev/+archive/cinnamon-stable updated 3-14 — Ringtail, Mar 19 '12 at 20:32
Using different ppas for the same program will likely damage your system. Try to remove all PPAs and then add BlueXrider one. — Javier Rivera, Mar 20 '12 at 11:16
@Chan-HoSuh: Better use the most upvoted answer http://askubuntu.com/a/313/211. — Javier Rivera, Mar 21 '12 at 08:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 19 '12 at 19:52

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have you tried apt-get install -f?

edited Mar 19 '12 at 19:52

Rafał Cieślak

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answered Mar 19 '12 at 19:15

Chaitanya

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Very bad idea. Cinnamon needs muffin. – Chan-Ho Suh Mar 19 '12 at 19:19
that doesnot work – PyariBilli Mar 19 '12 at 20:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 26 '12 at 14:46

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For me, these commands work fine to fix the error:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gnome3-team-gnome3-oneiric.list* merlwiz79-cinnamon-ppa-oneiric.list* ricotz-testing-oneiric.list*
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge gnome-desktop3-data
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

edited Jul 26 '12 at 14:46

jokerdino

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answered Mar 21 '12 at 08:12

jose

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@gforce89 Did this work? – Elysium Sep 06 '13 at 12:41

Unmet dependency error while installing Cinnamon

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