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My muon is gone on my Kubuntu 14.4. If I try to install it with

sudo apt-get install muon

I get the message

The following packages have unresolved dependencies:
 muon : Depends on: apt-xapian-index but shall not be installed
E: Problems can not be corrected, you have retained defect packages.

(translated into English)

Executing the commands in Package system is broken. How to fix it? in all kinds of orders and multiple times (as the answers suggest) did not help.

So what I did then, was to execute

sudo apt-get install apt-xapian-index

which answered with

The following packages have unresolved dependencies:
 apt-xapian-index : Depends on: python-xapian (>= 1.0.2) but shall not be installed.
Depends on: python-apt (>= 0.7.93.2) but shall not be installed.
Depends on: python-debian (>= 0.1.14) but shall not be installed.
Depends on: python:any (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2) but shall not be installed.
E: Problems can not be corrected, you have retained defect packages.

(translated into English)

It was then that I remembered, that I tried to install python 2.7.10 on my ubuntu 14.04 (which natively only has python 2.7.6). However, I removed the PATH extensions in ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc, so that

$ python --version
Python 2.7.6

is back. I still have python 2.7.10 in /opt/python and did not change back the effects of my

$ ln -s /opt/python/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/python2.7.10

What am I do do?

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The solution is to explicitly allow apt to downgrade packages:

sudo su -
sudo echo 'Package: *
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: 1001
' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/allow-downgrade
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get -f install
apt-get update
mv /etc/apt/preferences.d/allow-downgrade > /etc/apt/preferences.d/allow-downgrade_old
sudo apt-get install muon
exit

The answer was given to me at https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/218955/122989

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