Re: [gnome-flashback] Ubuntu install dependency issues

[Jim Ewert <jim ewert gmail com>]

#  apt-get remove gnome-session gnome-session-flashback gnome-settings-daemon

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Package 'gnome-session' is not installed, so not removed

Package 'gnome-settings-daemon' is not installed, so not removed

Package 'gnome-session-flashback' is not installed, so not removed

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

# apt-cache policy gnome-session

gnome-session:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 3.9.90-0ubuntu12

  Version table:

     3.9.90-0ubuntu12 0

        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

# apt-get install gnome-session-flashback

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-flashback : Depends: metacity (>= 2.30) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

# 

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com> wrote:

Hi Jim,

2015-11-18 16:28 GMT+03:00 Jim Ewert <jim ewert gmail com>:
> It's not my corrupted install.  I got the same error with gnome-session on a
> Live USB.  gnome-session-flashback wasn't available.  Looks like a packaging
> issue or is not supported on 14.04 LTS.

Works fine for me (the installation log from a clean amd64 system is attached).

> Who is supporting these, isn't this the project?

I am supporting these :P

Can you please try doing these:

# apt-get remove gnome-session gnome-session-flashback gnome-settings-daemon
# apt-cache policy gnome-session
# apt-get install gnome-session-flashback

… and paste the log of all these commands?

--
Dmitry Shachnev

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