I just did an:
Code:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
it removed XBMC from my system, so I did this:
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root@xbmc-live:~# sudo apt-get install xbmc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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:
xbmc: Depends: xbmc-data (= 1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-confluence (= 1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web (= 1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@xbmc-live:~# sudo apt-get purge xbmc*
.......................................... purging.................
root@xbmc-live:~# sudo apt-get install xbmc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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:
xbmc: Depends: xbmc-data (= 1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-confluence (= 1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web (= 1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@xbmc-live:~# sudo apt-get install xbmc-standalone
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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:
xbmc-standalone: Depends: xbmc-data (= 1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-confluence (= 1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web (= 1:10.08~svn32246-lucid1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@xbmc-live:~#
what do I need to do? I run the latest packages usually. Something went wrong though. How can I fix this?
Read a story to your child, that's much better than let it watch TV/videos anyway.
Get the fuck out. You are part of the solution or part of the problem. Now because of your idiotic comment, this post is no longer a 0 response attention getter.
The fact remains that the package is broken. What is the solution?
Did you try:
sudo apt-get install xbmc-standalone xbmc-data xbmc-skin-confluence xbmc-web
Cheers!
Yes, I did. No such luck. It kept telling me that there was a problem with tose three broken packages.
I just tried downloading a SVN version and it did not work
Code:
root@xbmc-live:~/svn_r32246/svn_r32246# sudo dpkg -i xbmc*.deb
Selecting previously deselected package xbmc.
(Reading database ... 65889 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xbmc (from xbmc_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: regarding xbmc-bin_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_amd64.deb containing xbmc-bin:
xbmc-bin conflicts with xbmc-common
xbmc-data provides xbmc-common and is present and installed.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-bin_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_amd64.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing xbmc-bin
Preparing to replace xbmc-data 1:9.11-lucid2 (using xbmc-data_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbmc-data ...
dpkg: error processing xbmc-data_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/xbmc/system/python/python24.zip', which is also in package xbmc-bin 1:9.11-lucid2
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Selecting previously deselected package xbmc-live.
Unpacking xbmc-live (from xbmc-live_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_all.deb) ...
Preparing to replace xbmc-skin-confluence 1:9.11-lucid2 (using xbmc-skin-confluence_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbmc-skin-confluence ...
Preparing to replace xbmc-standalone 1:9.11-lucid2 (using xbmc-standalone_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbmc-standalone ...
Selecting previously deselected package xbmc-web.
Unpacking xbmc-web (from xbmc-web_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc:
xbmc depends on xbmc-data (= 1:10.08~svn32246-karmic1); however:
Version of xbmc-data on system is 1:9.11-lucid2.
dpkg: error processing xbmc (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc-live:
xbmc-live depends on policykit; however:
Package policykit is not installed.
xbmc-live depends on whois; however:
Package whois is not installed.
xbmc-live depends on devicekit-disks; however:
Package devicekit-disks is not installed.
xbmc-live depends on devicekit-power; however:
Package devicekit-power is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-live (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc-skin-confluence:
xbmc-skin-confluence depends on xbmc-data (= 1:10.08~svn32246-karmic1); however:
Version of xbmc-data on system is 1:9.11-lucid2.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-skin-confluence (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc-standalone:
xbmc-standalone depends on xbmc-data (= 1:10.08~svn32246-karmic1); however:
Version of xbmc-data on system is 1:9.11-lucid2.
xbmc-standalone depends on xbmc-skin-confluence (= 1:10.08~svn32246-karmic1); however:
Package xbmc-skin-confluence is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-standalone (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbmc-web:
xbmc-web depends on xbmc-data (= 1:10.08~svn32246-karmic1); however:
Version of xbmc-data on system is 1:9.11-lucid2.
dpkg: error processing xbmc-web (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
xbmc-bin_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_amd64.deb
xbmc-data_10.08~svn32246-karmic1_all.deb
xbmc
xbmc-live
xbmc-skin-confluence
xbmc-standalone
xbmc-web
so I tried installing the missing dependencies
Code:
root@xbmc-live:~/svn_r32246/svn_r32246# sudo apt-get install devicekit-disks
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package devicekit-disks is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package devicekit-disks has no installation candidate
I'm making plans for the worst.. I'm backing up everything in case the only option is to reinstall from a live cd. I hope someone can come up with something. I've tried alot.
Hannes The Hun Wrote:of course instead of insulting other forum members
I'm siding with the original poster, here. If you don't have kids, you don't understand. And the fact that ion_man referred to kids as "it" tells me he doesn't have any.
Hannes The Hun Wrote:the solution by burningsky works. of course instead of insulting other forum members you could just have had a look into the SVN thread 
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=33327&page=89
happy sesame street!
I tried that. I downloaded the SVN and it did not work. That version kept giving me the same errors even after an apt-get purge xbmc*
I was able to remove all sources pertaining to the SVN, install stock XBMC from the team PPA and then install my drivers. I cannot get LIVE to work for some reason. I have to call it using xinit from root though. it does not work automatically. xinit only works after installing the drivers. After rebooting, it does not work. I'm really at a loss here. what do I need to do?
"sudo apt-get -f install" fixed the dependency problems for me. I was then able to get the BurningSky solution working.
well, i've kept pushing and somehow I've managed to upgrade my version of ubuntu to maverick and am installing new drivers now. I just hope it won't be fruitless.
I just installed Linux kernel 2.6.35-020635-generic #020635 (Maverick). XBMC installed fine through apt-get, but the packages which run certain aspects are broken.
I ran into issues installing nvidia from packages and ended up compiling from source.
LIRC will not compile! Apt-get provided a package which downloaded and failed. The LIRC source drivers would not compile so I compiled each of the separate folders and installed one by one. So on their own, both would fail and not work, but together, the drivers from the apt-get worked and the rest of the package from the SVN worked. I ended up having to edit the apt database.
So to correct that:
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gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status
then search and find the package in question. In my case it was lirc. So I searched and found lirc and it said:
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Package: lirc
Status: install ok half-configured
so I changed that to:
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Code:
Package: lirc
Status: install ok installed
And LIRC worked after that. No problems with apt-get claiming a 1/2 installed package and LIRC was chugging away and LIRCing.
I could not get the xbmc.bin file to execute from the xbmc-live package. So I ended up writing a script for my /etc/rc.local file which goes like this
Code:
#! /bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
xinit xbmc
done
The system works again, despite all the difficulties and 2 days of downtime. This should assist anyone in my position who does not want to start fresh after upgrading to the latest SVN.