On Ubuntu desktop 22.04.
Running dist-upgrade produces:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... 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-control-center : Depends: libwacom2 (>= 1.1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libcanberra-pulse but it is not going to be installed
gnome-settings-daemon : Depends: libwacom2 (>= 1.1) but it is not going to be installed
gnome-shell : Depends: gir1.2-mutter-6 (>= 3.36.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libmutter-6-0 (>= 3.36.0) but it is not going to be installed
mutter : Depends: libmutter-6-0 (>= 3.29.4) but it is not going to be installed
python3-venv : Depends: python3.8-venv (>= 3.8.2-1~) but it is not going to be installed
ubuntu-desktop : Depends: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gvfs-bin but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libreoffice-calc but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libreoffice-gnome but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libreoffice-impress but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libreoffice-math but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libreoffice-ogltrans
Recommends: libreoffice-pdfimport but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libreoffice-style-breeze but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libreoffice-writer but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: thunderbird but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: thunderbird-gnome-support but it is not going to be installed
ubuntu-desktop-minimal : Depends: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gvfs-bin but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
Tried manually installing all unmet dependencies, but turns out all of them have already been installed (albeit at different version numbers).
Tried running apt install with --reinstall flag on "depends" packages, got:
einstallation of gir1.2-mutter-6 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
Reinstallation of gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
Reinstallation of gvfs-bin is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
Reinstallation of libmutter-6-0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
Reinstallation of libwacom2 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 146 not upgraded.
Question: what commands can I run to troubleshoot why these things cannot be downloaded? I have checked internet connection and everything, things seem fine.
Maybe related:
The following PPA can't be updated due to a 401 unauthorized error... is this what's causing the downloads to fail?
deb https://packagecloud.io/screen/screen/debian/ buster main in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/screen.list
I tried commenting and uncommenting that deb https line in screen.list. Manual reinstall of the missing dependencies still doesn't work, and dist-upgrade returns the same error. What in the holy hell is going on?
Also note:
- Have tried
sudo apt -f install, sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade
All of them run fine. dist-upgrade still does not work.
May be relevant: i recently removed all libreoffice-* packages (sudo apt remove or something).
UPDATE:
For additional context, I originally installed Ubuntu 18.04 around 2019, then did an upgrade to 22.04 about 1 year back since I haven't used my ubuntu for a while. As part of the upgrade, I vaguely remember the installer telling me it was going to upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 first, then 22.04. Perhaps that's why some of my sources.list.d contains commented out sources that reference focal, with comments saying it was disabled due to the upgrade to 22.04.
Output of lsb_release -a:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
Output of apt policy gir1.2-mutter-6:
gir1.2-mutter-6:
Installed: 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
Candidate: 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
Version table:
*** 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Output of apt policy libreoffice-calc:
libreoffice-calc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
Version table:
4:7.5.5-0ubuntu0.23.04.1~bpo22.04.1 100
100 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/main amd64 Packages
1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages
1:7.3.2-0ubuntu2 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
Running sudo apt update gives:
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [109 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [101 kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [288 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [4,924 B]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [15.5 kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [43.0 kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [40.0 kB]
Fetched 830 kB in 5s (163 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
146 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
If I go and then run sudo apt upgrade, it gives:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled:
vlc-plugin-qt libvlc5 python2.7-minimal vlc-data libvlccore9 vlc imagemagick
libavcodec-extra vlc-bin vlc-l10n libopenexr25 libpostproc55
libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra vlc-plugin-samba libmagickwand-6.q16-6
libavcodec-extra58 libpython2.7 vlc-plugin-notify libavutil56
imagemagick-6.q16 libswscale5 libmagickcore-6.q16-6 vlc-plugin-skins2
vlc-plugin-video-splitter libswresample3 imagemagick-6-common
vlc-plugin-video-output libavformat58 python2.7-dev libpython2.7-dev
python2.7 libpython2.7-minimal libvlc-bin libpython2.7-stdlib
vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-visualization libavfilter7
Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://ubuntu.com/pro
The following packages have been kept back:
duplicity eog evolution-data-server gcc-10-base gdb gdm3 gedit gedit-common gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdm-1.0 gir1.2-glib-2.0
gir1.2-gweather-3.0 gir1.2-nma-1.0 gir1.2-rb-3.0 gjs gnome-calendar gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data gnome-session-bin
gnome-session-common gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon-common gnome-shell gnome-shell-common gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock
gnome-startup-applications gsettings-desktop-schemas gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-fuse gvfs-libs hplip hplip-data
libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libcairo-gobject-perl libcairo-perl libebackend-1.2-10 libebook-1.2-20 libedata-book-1.2-26 libedata-cal-2.0-1
libextutils-depends-perl libfile-fcntllock-perl libgdm1 libgirepository-1.0-1 libgjs0g libglib-object-introspection-perl libglib-perl
libgweather-3-16 libhpmud0 libhtml-parser-perl libinput-bin libinput10 libldb2 liblocale-gettext-perl libnautilus-extension1a libnet-dbus-perl
libnet-libidn-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libnma0 libpeas-1.0-0 libpython3-dev libpython3-stdlib librhythmbox-core10 libsane libsane-common
libsane-hpaio libsemanage-common libsmbclient libsocket6-perl libsub-name-perl libtalloc2 libtevent0 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
libwacom-bin libwacom-common libwbclient0 libxml-libxml-perl libxml-parser-perl mutter nautilus nautilus-data network-manager-gnome ntfs-3g
passwd perl perl-base perl-openssl-defaults printer-driver-hpcups python3 python3-apt python3-brlapi python3-cairo python3-cffi-backend
python3-cups python3-dbus python3-dev python3-distutils python3-gdbm python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-ldb python3-lib2to3 python3-markupsafe
python3-minimal python3-netifaces python3-pil python3-protobuf python3-renderpm python3-reportlab python3-reportlab-accel python3-systemd
python3-talloc python3-venv python3-yaml qemu-system-gui qemu-system-x86 remmina remmina-common remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-secret
remmina-plugin-vnc rhythmbox rhythmbox-plugins samba-libs sane-utils transmission-common transmission-gtk ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-desktop-minimal
ubuntu-session ubuntu-settings update-notifier update-notifier-common usb-creator-common usb-creator-gtk vim vim-common vim-runtime vim-tiny
xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk xserver-xorg-input-libinput yaru-theme-gnome-shell
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 146 not upgraded.
Running apt-mark showhold gives no output. Neither does running dpkg --get-selections | grep hold.
UPDATE 2:
I tried running the following to check if there is anything installed under that weird Debian PPA, thankfully nothing seems to be installed from there:
#!/bin/bash
# Get a list of all installed packages
packages=$(dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | awk '{print $1}')
for package in $packages; do
# Check the installation source of the package
result=$(apt-cache policy $package | grep "https://packagecloud.io/screen/screen/debian/")
if [ ! -z "$result" ]; then
echo "$package is from https://packagecloud.io/screen/screen/debian/"
fi
done
Above code produces no output.
For additional context, this is my sources.list.d:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166 Nov 15 2022 bluetooth-ubuntu-bluez-bionic.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166 Nov 15 2022 bluetooth-ubuntu-bluez-bionic.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134 Nov 15 2022 bluetooth-ubuntu-bluez-bionic.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 Nov 15 2022 deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 Nov 15 2022 deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132 Nov 15 2022 deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179 Aug 22 00:37 docker.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216 Nov 15 2022 erlang-solutions.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216 Nov 15 2022 erlang-solutions.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184 Nov 15 2022 erlang-solutions.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 267 Aug 22 00:24 google-chrome.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 222 Nov 15 2022 google-chrome.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 Nov 15 2022 google-chrome.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Nov 15 2022 graphics-drivers-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Nov 15 2022 graphics-drivers-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 144 Nov 15 2022 graphics-drivers-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 Aug 22 00:36 redis.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295 Aug 22 01:21 screen.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216 Nov 15 2022 screen.list.distUpgrade
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183 Nov 15 2022 screen.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 Nov 15 2022 tj-ubuntu-bugfixes-bionic.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 Nov 15 2022 tj-ubuntu-bugfixes-bionic.list.distUpgrade
I saw the following sources have been automatically commented out due to the upgrade to focal:
bluetooth-ubuntu-bluez-bionic.list
deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list
erlang-solutions.list
graphics-drivers-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list
tj-ubuntu-bugfixes-bionic.list
redis, docker, chrome, and screen have been manually commented out for now.
*I am a linux noob so apologies for any dumb mistakes :( Trying to google/ask chatgpt for every terminal output to understand the concepts behind it.
