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Richard Knop
Asked: 2012-07-11 03:16:36 +0800 CST

Something's wrong with my Ubuntu, apt-get upgrade stopped working

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So I was trying to install gpac from source (a big mistake) and in the process I broke my Ubuntu machine. I can do sudo apt-get update but when I do sudo apt-get upgrade, I get this error:

richard@richard-desktop:~/projects/sdp-encode-node$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 freeglut3-dev : Depends: freeglut3 (= 2.6.0-0ubuntu2) but 2.6.0-1ubuntu2 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
richard@richard-desktop:~/projects/sdp-encode-node$

Any ideas how to fix it?

ubuntu

2 Answers

  1. Did you try running apt-get -f install, like the message suggested?

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  2. I suspect the key part of that error message is this:

    freeglut3-dev : Depends: freeglut3

    You could try installing freeglut3 or, if you don't need freeglut3-dev, try removing that.

    Either way, you may need -f to force it to work rather than complaining about unmet dependencies:

    apt-get -f install freeglut3

    Or

    apt-get -f remove freeglut3-dev
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