Estou usando o Linux Mint 12 e atualmente tenho a área de trabalho do Mate em execução. O ícone no canto superior direito mostrou suas atualizações. Tentou fazê-lo e disse que
The package system is broken
Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them,
since they are a common source of problems. Furthermore run the
following command in a Terminal: apt-get install -f
Os detalhes são:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mint-artwork-gnome: Depends: gtk2-engines-clearlooks but it is a
virtual package
Depends: mint-backgrounds-lisa but it is not installed
sudo apt-get install -f fornece esta saída:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
mint-backgrounds-lisa
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mint-backgrounds-lisa
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3,003 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,265 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 482703 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mint-backgrounds-lisa (from .../mint-backgrounds-lisa_1.1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-backgrounds-lisa_1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/gnome-background-properties/linuxmint-lisa.xml', which is also in package mint-artwork-kde 2.0.1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mint-backgrounds-lisa_1.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Se eu tentar instalar a versão mais recente do Chromium clicando duas vezes no arquivo deb, ele será:
gdebi-gtk Broken Dependencies
Your system has broken dependencies. This application cannot continue
until this is fixed. To fix it run 'gksudo synaptic' or 'sudo apt-get
install -f' in a terminal window.
Se eu executo o 'gksudo synaptic' Synaptic aparece e diz:
(as superuser) You have 1 broken package on your system!
Use the "Broken" filter to locate it.
O filtro quebrado mostra:
Synaptic Broken Installed Version Latest Version Description
mint-artwork-gnome 2.6.20 2.6.20 Default Artwork for Linux Mint
Tentar reinstalar o pacote acima fornece:
Ocorreu um erro
Os detalhes a seguir são fornecidos:
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-backgrounds-lisa_1.1_all.deb: trying
to overwrite
'/usr/share/gnome-background-properties/linuxmint-lisa.xml', which is
also in package mint-artwork-kde 2.0.1
Uma solução fácil é provavelmente não executar o Mate com o Linux Mint (esta é a minha primeira tentativa), mas apenas imaginando se isso é solucionável.