Re: [gnome-flashback] Ubuntu install dependency issues

[Hussam Al-Tayeb <me hussam eu org>]

On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 20:11 -0500, Jim Ewert wrote:
> I appreciate the reply and had already tried that.  upgrade and dist-
> upgrade.
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com
> > wrote:
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > 2015-11-17 17:15 GMT+03:00 Jim Ewert <jim ewert gmail com>:
> > > Am getting these errors on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.  I really just want
> > > gnome-panel, which I installed, though there isn't anywhere to
> > select it
> > > instead of Unity.
> > >
> > > > sudo apt-get install gnome-session
> > > 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-session : Depends: gnome-settings-daemon (>= 3.0) but it
> > is not going
> > > to be installed
> > >                   Depends: gnome-session-common (= 3.9.90-
> > 0ubuntu12) but
> > > 3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1 is to be installed
> > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> >
> > Most likely the apt update && apt upgrade before attempting to
> > install
> > will fix it.
> >
> > --
> > Dmitry Shachnev
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This is clearly a packaging issue. Try contacting the person who
packages gnome/gnome-flashback at your distribution.