How do you remove a held broken package?

How do you remove a held broken package?

These are some fast and easy ways to fix the you have held broken packages error.

1. Open your sources.
2. Select the Fix Broken Packages option in Synaptic package manager.
3. If you get this error message: Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution)
4. Manually remove a broken package.

How do you remove apt — fix broken install?

Here are the steps.

1. Find your package in /var/lib/dpkg/info , for example using: ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep
2. Move the package folder to another location, like suggested in the blog post I mentioned before.
3. Run the following command: sudo dpkg –remove –force-remove-reinstreq

How to fix stuck with APT-fix-broken install?

Stuck with apt –fix-broken install (libc6:amd64 package post-installation) Ask Question Asked1 year, 3 months ago Active10 months ago Viewed19k times 19 6 My system runs inside WSL, I upgrade it at least every few days. I stuck with one package installation, and looking for a way to solve this:

Why do I get unable to correct problems in Apt?

After upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 I am trying to install different packages. For instance ia32-libs and skype (4.0). When trying to install these, I am getting the ‘Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages’ error message. sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information…

How to tell if a package is broken in Apt?

Select the broken packages one at a time. Select a broken package, and then open the terminal and run apt policy . The results of this command will tell you if that broken package was installed from the default Ubuntu repositories or from some other source.

How to install a broken package on a Raspberry Pi?

In case that package doesn’t exist then just go to that directory (archives) and type “sudo rm raspber” (without quotation marks of course) and use the tab command to find the package in the directory that you want (which is raspberrypi-boot..etc). Once package is removed then type “cd” and then issue this command: sudo apt-get install -f