Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit - Unmet Dependencies (skype, steam, samba)

Question

I can't install many different kinds of packages on my Ubuntu 14.04 64bit system.

I have run the command

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

as many of the related questions have suggested, but when I run

sudo apt-get install skype

I get:

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:
 skype : Depends: skype-bin
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Steam fails too:

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:
 steam:i386 : Depends: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Also, even something I thought was simple like samba fails to install:

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:
 samba : Depends: samba-common (= 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2) but 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.1 is to be installed
         Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2) but 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.1 is to be installed
         Depends: samba-dsdb-modules but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2) but 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.1 is to be installed
         Recommends: attr
         Recommends: samba-vfs-modules but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Here are the uncommented lines from /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ trusty partner
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main

I believe this has something to do with the "new" (?) multiarch system in Ubuntu 14.04 (my last system ran 13.04), but I don't really know what to do to fix this problem. I have seen many suggests that involve crowbaring packages from older distributions into 14.04, but I don't want to do that unless as a last resort.

The only PPA I have installed is the one for Google Chrome.

How do I fix this?

Did you have trusty-updates enabled at any point? It doesn't look like trusty-updates is present in your sources.list, but the samba package is from trusty-updates. — saiarcot895, Jun 12 '14 at 00:50
I've seen that possible duplicate and chose to create my own because most users seem to get this working without resorting to manually downloading packages. Also, my issue with samba seems to suggest deeper problems. — user292735, Jun 12 '14 at 01:14
@AvinashRaj - I changed from "Main Server" to "Server for United States" (my country), and had no effect — user292735, Jun 12 '14 at 01:21
post the output of cat /var/lib/dpkg/arch. Did you update all the repositories by running sudo apt-get update? — Avinash Raj, Jun 12 '14 at 01:22
@user292735: Try enabling trusty-updates, update, and redownload. — saiarcot895, Jun 13 '14 at 00:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '14 at 00:35

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For Skype and Steam, the packages come from the Canonical partner's repo, for which the correct line is:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner

There's an ubuntu at the end of the URL, missing in your list.

Try again after an apt-get update after making this change. You should use the software-properties-gtk program for selecting from such pre-listed repositories. You can run it by typing Sources in the Dash.

I'm not sure of samba. In this case, the error is that you have held broken packages. I suggest an apt-get install -f.

answered Jun 12 '14 at 00:35

muru

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I had it with the ubuntu before, but I saw a tip that had it removed. I added it back to no effect.
Running apt-get install -f does nothing: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
– user292735 Jun 12 '14 at 00:48
@user292735 Worst case: get the package of samba/skype/steam, install it using dpkg and then do apt-get install -f: apt-get download skype; sudo dpkg -i skype*.deb; sudo apt-get install -f Presumably the problem only occurs when you try to install these packages, so forcing an install and then getting apt-get to fix things might work, but this is a dangerous way. – muru Jun 12 '14 at 00:51
Isn't there something wrong with my package system though? I saw lots of users claim skype "just worked" for them.
Also, the fact that something like samba doesn't install really worries me.

I was hoping to treat the cause, not the symptoms here.
– user292735 Jun 12 '14 at 00:57
@user292735, yes, I'd say there is. I upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 the day after it released, and it's having no trouble installing these packages. Nor am I having trouble with a fresh installation. I think you might have to use synaptic to see where exactly the problem might be. – muru Jun 12 '14 at 01:04
@user292735, for that matter, I didn't even need to run the add-architectures command. – muru Jun 12 '14 at 01:06
Synaptic gives me the same error when I try to install samba – user292735 Jun 12 '14 at 01:10
@user292735, only for samba or the others as well? – muru Jun 12 '14 at 01:16
Aha. For skype, it says it will remove lots of irrelevant packages like dconf-editor, google-chrome-stable, and vlc – user292735 Jun 12 '14 at 01:23
@user292735 Is this package hangover from 13.04? Perhaps some package from that time still hanging aroung, satisfying dependencies and screwing up things? Are there any local or auto-removable packages in Synaptic? – muru Jun 12 '14 at 01:31
This system was a clean install of 14.04. I don't trust upgrades for this very reason. I don't know how to do an autoremove from synaptic, but sudo apt-get autoremove doesn't do anything. – user292735 Jun 12 '14 at 01:39
@user292735, here's my sources.list: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7631468/. Replace the IITK mirror url with us.archive.ubuntu.com and try. – muru Jun 12 '14 at 01:53
Your repositories worked. Would you like to submit that as the answer so I can mark it? What happened to cause the problem? – user292735 Jun 13 '14 at 01:13
@user292735 My best guess is the comment from saiarcot895 on the question: the trusty-updates repositories weren't all enabled. Did you use the IITK urls or archive.ubuntu.com ones? Can you check with the latter if you haven't, and see if a reinstall proceeds fine? – muru Jun 13 '14 at 01:40

Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit - Unmet Dependencies (skype, steam, samba)

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