Trouble installing packages in a fresh chroot

danben

5/30/23, 10:51 PM

I created a chroot using the instructions here, substituting focal for lucid. Now I'd like to start installing packages, starting with Python, but I'm not sure what kind of setup I need to perform before doing so.

Currently when I try to install software-properties-common (via apt-get), I get the following errors:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
software-properties-common : Depends: gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 (>= 1.1.0-2) but it 
is not installable
                             Depends: packagekit but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Googling tells me that dpkg --get-selections | grep hold might turn something up, but it does not.

I thought it might be an issue with /etc/apt/sources.list, so I copied that in from the outer installation and refreshed but it didn't change anything.

Edit:

Running sudo apt update gives the following output:

Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [108 kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [114 kB]
Fetched 336 kB in 1s (440 kB/s)    
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
69 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

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user535733

5/31/23, 2:14 AM

"*unmet dependencies*" usually means that your package sources are introducing a version conflict. "*it is not installable*" also strongly suggests that you have mucked up your sources. Please [edit your question](https://askubuntu.com/posts/1390184/edit) to include the complete output of `sudo apt update`

Someone

5/31/23, 2:43 AM

Please [edit] to include `apt-cache policy gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0` and `apt-cache policy packagekit` and `apt-cache policy software-properties-common`

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RO: Probleme la instalarea pachetelor într-un nou chroot

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