I have Dell Vostro 3443 laptop. It has a certified pre-install Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64-bit by manufacturer. I have quite lot of software on it, updated using update manager. Now when I try to install wine and gnome it says broken packages, below is shows the logs generated by command line install.
$ sudo apt-get install gnome
[sudo] password for mithun:
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:
gnome : Depends: gnome-core (= 1:3.0+6ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: alacarte (>= 0.13.2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: cheese (>= 3.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: evolution (>= 3.0) but it is not installable
Depends: evolution-plugins (>= 3.0) but it is not installable
Depends: hamster-applet (>= 2.91.2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: tomboy (>= 1.6) but it is not going to be installed or
gnote but it is not going to be installed
Depends: vinagre (>= 3.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gimp (>= 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: inkscape (>= 0.48) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: simple-scan but it is not going to be installed
Depends: epiphany-extensions (>= 3.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gedit-plugins (>= 3.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gnome-applets (>= 2.91) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: browser-plugin-gnash but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: gdebi but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: gnome-games-extra-data (>= 3.0) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: liferea but it is not installable or
evolution-rss but it is not going to be installed or
blam but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: menu-xdg but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
and for the case of wine it will give as
$ sudo apt-get install wine
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:
openssh-client : Depends: adduser (>= 3.10) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: passwd
ssh : Depends: openssh-server
wine : Depends: wine1.6 but it is not going to be installed or
wine1.7 but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
and tried to install dependencies on my own. And followed this source.
Plus the command:
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall
give the following list:
colord deinstall
cups deinstall
dell-eula deinstall
dell-recovery-bootloader deinstall
deluge deinstall
deluge-gtk deinstall
dmraid deinstall
firstboot-video2 deinstall
hplip deinstall
indicator-printers deinstall
kpartx-boot deinstall
libblas3gf deinstall
libboost-filesystem1.46.1 deinstall
libboost-python1.46.1 deinstall
libboost-system1.46.1 deinstall
libboost-thread1.46.1 deinstall
libdebconfclient0 deinstall
libdebian-installer4 deinstall
libdmraid1.0.0.rc16 deinstall
libevent-core-2.0-5 deinstall
libevent-openssl-2.0-5 deinstall
libgfortran3 deinstall
libgl1-mesa-glx deinstall
libglapi-mesa deinstall
liblapack3gf deinstall
libmikmod2 deinstall
libopts25 deinstall
libportmidi0 deinstall
libsane deinstall
libsdl-mixer1.2 deinstall
libsdl-ttf2.0-0 deinstall
libsmpeg0 deinstall
libtorrent-rasterbar6 deinstall
libxatracker1 deinstall
oem-config deinstall
oem-config-gtk deinstall
oobe-dim-disable deinstall
printer-driver-gutenprint deinstall
quilt deinstall
sane-utils deinstall
shotwell deinstall
user-setup deinstall
xserver-xorg deinstall
xserver-xorg-core deinstall
xserver-xorg-video-intel deinstall
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome deinstall
xserver-xorg-video-vmware deinstall
I removed them using:
$ dpkg --purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1`
and tried to do update again still no use. The problem remains, am I missing any thing.
Edit : 2
Later it end up in complete os crash - not able to get log page also
The following are clear by now:
The manufacturer has given the ubuntu version as such - i.e., no modification. But with few additional packages.
The factory reset option is available(which I used later), but only available after system test for hardware done. Still don't know the reason for such behavior.
Even after factory reset cannot able to install wine.
