[bb2g40]

First off, I'm sorry for having to post this. I have searched for two days now and have not been able to find or understand what I have to do here. I am definitely a newbie when it comes to linux. I have made it through adding the repositories, but when I try to install, either through the terminal or the synaptics manager, i get the followng:

chris@xbmc:~$ 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc: Depends: xbmc-common (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-pm3 (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web-pm3 (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages


every time... I just don't understand what I'm doing to make the packages broken. xbmc-common shows up in synaptics, but I can't install it either... Please help

[althekiller]

You need to tell us what you HAVE done. What guide did you use, exactly which repo, how and where did you add it, etc? You need to be as descriptive as possible. "This doesn't work how do I fix it?" + C&P will get you NOWHERE here.

[bond007taz]

<- another noob trying to help:

try:

sudo apt-get aptitude xbmc

or

sudo apt-get aptitude xbmc*

[bb2g40]

ok thanks...

I have gotten the precompiled builds and guides from this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=185738

I added both the main and the source to the software sources

I have tried to install both through the synaptics manager and through terminal

through synaptics, I get a warning each time that says "could not mark all packages for installation or upgrade" followed by this "xbmc:
Depends: xbmc-common but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-pm3 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web-pm3 but it is not going to be installed"

after searching a little more, I thought that I might be up to terminal installation
I started with sudo apt-get update
then sudo apt-get install xbmc ... this command replies with this error:
chris@xbmc:~$ 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc: Depends: xbmc-common (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-pm3 (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web-pm3 (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I have double, triple and even quadruple checked the package addresses that I have added. I originally started out in gutsy, and when I was getting these errors, I upgraded my system to hardy (thinking it might help) after upgrade, I made certain my system was up to date. Now I am using only the hardy PPA's.
I hope this is enough, I am seriously so confused.

[bb2g40]

<- another noob trying to help:

try:

sudo apt-get aptitude xbmc

or

sudo apt-get aptitude xbmc*

both of these commands gave me "invalid operation aptitude"

[bb2g40]

<- another noob trying to help:

try:

sudo apt-get aptitude xbmc

or

sudo apt-get aptitude xbmc*

but thanks anyways... i'm really stuck here and pulling my hair out as i type

[xgrep]

I think he was meaning to say

Code:

sudo aptitude install xbmc
or
sudo apt-get install xbmc*

Which I'd try both.

I've heard aptitude is sometimes better at handling dependencies, though I haven't experienced this myself.


Personally, this has worked whenever apt had gotten confused on me

Code:

sudo apt-get --fix-broken
sudo apt-get install xbmc

If not, then as al said, we need more info

[bb2g40]

I understand that you keep saying you need more, but I really don't know how to post more, or what more to post... here is the terminal responses for everything you guys have recommended. still nothing working... and still getting same errors of broken dependencies

chris@xbmc:~$ 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc: Depends: xbmc-common (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-pm3 (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web-pm3 (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
chris@xbmc:~$ 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc: Depends: xbmc-common (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-pm3 (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web-pm3 (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
chris@xbmc:~$
chris@xbmc:~$ sudo apt-get aptitude xbmc
[sudo] password for chris:
E: Invalid operation aptitude
chris@xbmc:~$ sudo apt-get aptitute xbmc*
E: Invalid operation aptitute
chris@xbmc:~$ sudo apt-get --fix-broken
[sudo] password for chris:
apt 0.7.9ubuntu17 for i386 compiled on Apr 22 2008 15:19:47
Usage: apt-get [options] command
apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...]

apt-get is a simple command line interface for downloading and
installing packages. The most frequently used commands are update
and install.

Commands:
update - Retrieve new lists of packages
upgrade - Perform an upgrade
install - Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb)
remove - Remove packages
autoremove - Remove all automatic unused packages
purge - Remove and purge packages
source - Download source archives
build-dep - Configure build-dependencies for source packages
dist-upgrade - Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8)
dselect-upgrade - Follow dselect selections
clean - Erase downloaded archive files
autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files
check - Verify that there are no broken dependencies

Options:
-h This help text.
-q Loggable output - no progress indicator
-qq No output except for errors
-d Download only - do NOT install or unpack archives
-s No-act. Perform ordering simulation
-y Assume Yes to all queries and do not prompt
-f Attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place
-m Attempt to continue if archives are unlocatable
-u Show a list of upgraded packages as well
-b Build the source package after fetching it
-V Show verbose version numbers
-c=? Read this configuration file
-o=? Set an arbitrary configuration option, eg -o dir::cache=/tmp
See the apt-get(8), sources.list(5) and apt.conf(5) manual
pages for more information and options.
This APT has Super Cow Powers.
chris@xbmc:~$ 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc: Depends: xbmc-common (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-skin-pm3 (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xbmc-web-pm3 (= 8.10a4-hardy1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
chris@xbmc:~$ sudo apt-get install xbmc*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting xbmc-common-dbg for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-eventclients-dev for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-eventclients-common for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-eventclients-j2me for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-skin-default for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-eventclients-ps3 for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-web-iphone-tlrobinson for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-web-pm for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-eventclients-wiiremote for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-web-pm3 for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-web-eflexweb for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-scripts-example for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-common for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting xbmc-skin-pm3 for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting libimage-xbm-perl for regex 'xbmc*'
Note, selecting libimage-base-bundle-perl instead of libimage-xbm-perl
Note, selecting xbmc-scripts for regex 'xbmc*'
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc-common: Depends: libfaac0 but it is not installable
xbmc-scripts: Depends: xbmc-common (= 2.1a2-hardy2) but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
xbmc-skin-default: Depends: xbmc-common (= 2.1a2-hardy2) but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
xbmc-skin-pm3: Conflicts: xbmc-skin-default but 2.1a2-hardy2 is to be installed
xbmc-web-eflexweb: Conflicts: xbmc-web-iphone-tlrobinson but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
Conflicts: xbmc-web-pm but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
Conflicts: xbmc-web-pm3 but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
xbmc-web-pm: Conflicts: xbmc-web-pm3 but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

[bb2g40]

I guess for me what may be the most helpful, and for you that are helping out would be "newbie" instructions from the beginning that I should follow so that when I have this problem, I can verify that I've done every step you think I should have done. Is there such a website that has those directions? I've tried the xbmc linux wiki too... but I can try it again if it is the best? Any suggestions?

[bb2g40]

here is the latest. I tried "sudo aptitude install xbmc" and I got the following errors from terminal:

chris@xbmc:~$ sudo aptitude install xbmc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 50%
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done


Reading extended state information... 0%


Reading extended state information... 57%

Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... 0%


Initializing package states... Done










Building tag database... 0%



Building tag database... 48%



Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
xbmc-common
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
gawk libenca0 liblzo1 libmad0 libmikmod2 libmms0 libmysqlclient15off
libsdl-gfx1.2-4 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-sound1.2 libsmpeg0
libtre4 mysql-common pmount python-sqlite python2.4 python2.4-minimal
xbmc-skin-pm3 xbmc-web-pm3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gawk libenca0 liblzo1 libmad0 libmikmod2 libmms0 libmysqlclient15off
libsdl-gfx1.2-4 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-sound1.2 libsmpeg0
libtre4 mysql-common pmount python-sqlite python2.4 python2.4-minimal
xbmc xbmc-skin-pm3 xbmc-web-pm3
0 packages upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 77.0MB of archives. After unpacking 194MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc-common: Depends: libfaac0 which is a virtual package.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
xbmc [Not Installed]
xbmc-common [Not Installed]
xbmc-skin-pm3 [Not Installed]
xbmc-web-pm3 [Not Installed]

Score is -9846

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
gawk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gawk
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 500kB of archives. After unpacking 2060kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main gawk 1:3.1.6.dfsg-0ubuntu1 [500kB]
Fetched 500kB in 4s (110kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gawk.
(Reading database ... 115421 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gawk (from .../gawk_1%3a3.1.6.dfsg-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up gawk (1:3.1.6.dfsg-0ubuntu1) ...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done

[bb2g40]

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc-common: Depends: libfaac0 but it is not installable
xbmc-scripts: Depends: xbmc-common (= 2.1a2-hardy2) but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
xbmc-skin-default: Depends: xbmc-common (= 2.1a2-hardy2) but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
xbmc-skin-pm3: Conflicts: xbmc-skin-default but 2.1a2-hardy2 is to be installed
xbmc-web-eflexweb: Conflicts: xbmc-web-iphone-tlrobinson but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
Conflicts: xbmc-web-pm but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
Conflicts: xbmc-web-pm3 but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
xbmc-web-pm: Conflicts: xbmc-web-pm3 but 8.10a4-hardy1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

I think this is the problem. It looks like I am set to install 8.10a4-hardy1, but the system is looking for 2.1a2-hardy2. How can I direct my system to install the correct package?

thank you guys so much for helping. seriously!

[mylo]

hi, just a quick question - what does the file /etc/apt/sources.list look like (regarding xbmc-lines)?

[bb2g40]

I have both the main and the source code added. both boxes are checked and they read:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-hardy/ubuntu hardy main (Source Code)
http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-hardy/ubuntu hardy main

[mylo]

ok, just wanted to make sure it was ok.

it says:

xbmc-common: Depends: libfaac0 but it is not installable

what do you get if you run:

sudo apt-get install libfaac0

[althekiller]

Ok newbie or not you still follow the rules. Long paste = http://pastebin.ca or similar.