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thatoneguy
Asked: 2013-07-04 14:33:45 +0800 CST

Unmet dependencies in Rhythmbox

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I've been having problems with Rhythmbox, so I decided to uninstall and reinstall to see if it will work. I keep getting an error message during the installation that says

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:
 rhythmbox : Depends: librhythmbox-core6 (= 2.98-0ubuntu5) but 2.98+git20121010.c331b2df-0ubuntu1~12.04~ricotz0 is to be installed
             Depends: rhythmbox-data (= 2.98-0ubuntu5) but 2.98+git20121010.c331b2df-0ubuntu1~12.04~ricotz0 is to be installed
             Depends: gir1.2-rb-3.0 (= 2.98-0ubuntu5) but 2.98+git20121010.c331b2df-0ubuntu1~12.04~ricotz0 is to be installed
             Recommends: rhythmbox-mozilla but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: rhythmbox-plugins but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

How can I fix this? Output from sudo apt-cache rhythmbox 

rhythmbox:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.98-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
     2.98+git20121010.c331b2df-0ubuntu1~12.04~ricotz0 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.98-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main i386 Packages
dependencies

1 Answers

  1. Revert to the Ubuntu version

    At some point in time you really have installed some PPA version of Rhythmbox, but you have deleted the PPA from the sources. Because the version currently installed is marked newer as the one Ubuntu is offering in the main repositories it is still running the PPA version. And because new dependencies have to be satisfied from the old PPA, you are getting conflicts.

    To resolve this, try to revert to the Ubuntu version of the package as shown in the apt-cache policy output:

    sudo apt-get install rhythmbox=2.98-0ubuntu5

    and hopefully apt-get will suggest a solution to downgrade the other packages as well.

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