Pacotes quebrados no gerenciador de pacotes

Question

Eu estou tentando configurar o linux mint 18.1 Cinnamon no meu computador, no entanto estou repetidamente encontrando muitos problemas com o gerenciador de pacotes. Muitos dos pacotes não podem ser instalados, pois aparentemente estão quebrados. Por exemplo, para instalar um programa com dependência do pacote libgtk2.0-dev, obviamente preciso primeiro instalar o pacote. No entanto, quando o marquei para instalação no gerenciador de pacotes, ele falha porque o pacote aparentemente está quebrado.

Antes de marcar para instalação:

Após a marcação para instalação:

Este parece ser um problema comum para muitos dos pacotes no gerenciador de pacotes, e não tenho certeza de como proceder ou até mesmo como ver por que o pacote está supostamente quebrado para que eu possa consertá-lo.

política do apt-cache:

Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
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     origin archive.canonical.com
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     release v=16.04,o=Canonical,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=Partner archive,c=partner,b=amd64
     origin archive.canonical.com
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     release v=16.04,o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-backports,n=xenial,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=i386
     origin archive.ubuntu.com
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     release v=16.04,o=Ubuntu,a=xenial-backports,n=xenial,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=amd64
     origin archive.ubuntu.com
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     origin archive.ubuntu.com
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     origin archive.ubuntu.com
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     origin archive.ubuntu.com
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     origin archive.ubuntu.com
 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages
     release v=16.04,o=Ubuntu,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=i386
     origin archive.ubuntu.com
 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
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     origin archive.ubuntu.com
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     release v=16.04,o=Ubuntu,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=amd64
     origin archive.ubuntu.com
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     origin packages.linuxmint.com
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     origin packages.linuxmint.com
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     origin packages.linuxmint.com
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     release v=18.1,o=linuxmint,a=serena,n=serena,l=linuxmint,c=import,b=amd64
     origin packages.linuxmint.com
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     origin packages.linuxmint.com
 700 http://packages.linuxmint.com serena/upstream amd64 Packages
     release v=18.1,o=linuxmint,a=serena,n=serena,l=linuxmint,c=upstream,b=amd64
     origin packages.linuxmint.com
 500 http://packages.linuxmint.com serena/main i386 Packages
     release v=18.1,o=linuxmint,a=serena,n=serena,l=linuxmint,c=main,b=i386
     origin packages.linuxmint.com
 500 http://packages.linuxmint.com serena/main amd64 Packages
     release v=18.1,o=linuxmint,a=serena,n=serena,l=linuxmint,c=main,b=amd64
     origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pinned packages: