Re: [gnome-flashback] Ubuntu install dependency issues

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Hi,

2015-11-19 4:15 GMT+03:00 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

This indicates that your apt cache is not up to date. Please make sure
you have the -updates component enabled in your /etc/apt/sources.list
(you can also check it via software-properties-gtk GUI tool).

> # 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.

And what happens when you try to apt-get install metacity?

--
Dmitry Shachnev