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[Solved] “is not co-installable with” errors on Ubuntu

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:13:40 +0000

I installed 32bit wine on 64bit Kubuntu but for some reason it didn’t install properly so I tried reinstalling wine 64 bit and got the following error: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/wine1.2_1.2.3-0ubuntu1~ppa1_amd64.deb (–unpack): wine1.2: 1.2.3-0ubuntu1~ppa1 (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with wine1.2:i386 1.2.3-0ubuntu1~ppa1 (Multi-Arch: no) which is currently installed You can’t simply remove 32bit wine using [...] Related posts:

[Solved] apt-get “is to be installed” errors in Ubuntu

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:27:28 +0000

This class of error means the dependency is of different version than required. I tried to install deluge-console but it gave me the following error: deluge-console : Depends: deluge-common (= 1.3.0-0ubuntu1) but 1.3.0-1~getdeb1 is to be installed The error is not that self-explanatory. Here the deluge-common version required by deluge-console is 1.3.0-0 but 1.3.0-1 is [...] Related posts:

[SOLVED] “Ignoring file ‘.distUpgrade’ / ‘.save’ in directory ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d/’ as it has an invalid filename extension” on Ubuntu 10.10

Deepak Mittal — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:35:25 +0000

Recently apt-get update started throwing notices which read: Ignoring file 'opera.list.distUpgrade' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension Ignoring file 'opera.list.save' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension It occured because sources.list.d directory isn’t supposed to contain files with .distupgrade and .save extensions, but since I upgraded my distribution [...] Related posts:

[SOLVED] Error ‘dpkg: error processing (--unpack) trying to overwrite…

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:08:11 +0000

Recently I got this error after installing VLC on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. Not really remembering what caused the error to be triggered in the first place, it became very difficult to find a solution for it. When I executed sudo apt-get upgrade to upgrade my packages, it told me there was some issues and [...] Related posts:

[Solved] ‘Public key is not available’ error on apt-get update in Ubuntu

Deepak Mittal — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:22:07 +0000

I came across this error while doing sudo apt-get update W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 5A9BF3BB4E5E19B8 W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9ABD05E22847688C This made me [...] Related posts:

Installing applications (Using synaptic package manager and terminal)

ubunturocks — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:30:29 +0000

Applications is the key element of a computer. Without applications/softwares, computer is useless. Ubuntu has a pretty good software installation mechanism. All the softwares are at one place in Synaptic Package Manager which. This makes it easier to install applications. Instead of browsing the application website and downloading it from there and then installing it, [...] Related posts: