[emrahyuceer]

Hello everybody,

im a total newbie at linux, but I like what I've seen until now on ubuntu 12.10
I was trying to install XBMC and i guess I used too many messed up command lines in the first place.

In the beginning I had at some point XBMC installed but when I clicked on the XBMC icon, nothing launched so I tried to uninstall it and re-install from the Ubuntu software center but here are the errors that shows when I try to install XBMC from the software center:

From software center

Package dependencies cannot be resolved

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

xbmc: Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 2:11.0-2~ppa1~quantal) but 2:11.0-2~ppa1~quantal is to be installed


And this is what shows when I try sudo apt-get install xbmc command:

xxx@ubuntu:~$ 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-bin (>= 2:11.0-2~ppa1~quantal) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-bin (< 2:11.0-2~ppa1~quantal.1~) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python-qt3 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.



I would like some help.

Thanks

[grJubei]

I would like some help

I think you have added that Nathan Rennie-Waldock PPA because I have also added the PPA and I have the same problem.

If you want to install xbmc first apt-get remove, then remove the PPA.

[wsnipex]

to go back to the official ubuntu package(Eden), you must first uninstall xbmc:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove xbmc xbmc-bin

then remove the ppa

[grJubei]

wsnipex thank you for the reply. So am I to understand that in order to get rar playback, the only solution is to compile xbmc myself at the moment?

[wsnipex]

if you want nightlies and don't need vaapi, you can also use the packages in my ppa(see my sig)

[emrahyuceer]

to go back to the official ubuntu package(Eden), you must first uninstall xbmc:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove xbmc xbmc-bin

then remove the ppa

Wsnipex, thanks for your reply, this is what shows when I write your command:

xxx@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove xbmc xbmc-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'xbmc' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'xbmc-bin' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

[wsnipex]

lets see the output of

Code:

apt-cache policy xbmc xbmc-bin

[emrahyuceer]

Sorry, I was out, will be in front of the computer if you're still here, thanks.

@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy xbmc xbmc-bin
xbmc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2:11.0-2~ppa1~quantal
Version table:
2:11.0-2~ppa1~quantal 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nathan-renniewa...le/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe amd64 Packages
xbmc-bin:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2:11.0-2~ppa1~quantal
Version table:
2:11.0-2~ppa1~quantal 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nathan-renniewa...le/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe amd64 Packages

[VanillaXtract]

Have you tried

Code:

sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-bin

And I have installed wsnipex repo on my 12.10 desktop and install went smoothly.

[emrahyuceer]

Yep, tried, it says:

@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-bin
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-bin : Depends: libglew1.6 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libmicrohttpd5 but it is not installable
Depends: libyajl1 (>= 1.0.5) but it is not installable
Recommends: libafpclient0 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libnfs0 but it is not installable
Recommends: libshairport0 but it is not installable
Recommends: libcec1 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libvdpau1 (>= 0.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[wsnipex]

remove all nathan rennie ppas in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

then do
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f

after that add my ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wsnipex/xbmc-xvba
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc

[emrahyuceer]

it worked thank you very much

[quint250]

Thanks man. Had the same issue and you solved it