[SOLVED] I'm stuck trying to install Cinnamon

[JPClyde]

Software Manager will not install Cinnamon so I thought I'd try installing from terminal (see I am learning )

But I get this response:

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.
cinnamon : Depends: gir1.2-muffin-3.0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcogl5 (>= 1.7.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libmuffin0 (>= 1.0.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I've run Synaptic Package Manager and it tells me I have no broken packages.

Can anyone help?

[zerozero]

JPClyde,
open a terminal, please, and

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sudo inxi -U

(this will update inxi to the newest version < what i will ask you next is only available in the latest versions)
now (as user) give us the output of

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inxi -Srxxx

tks

[JPClyde]

This is the output:

System: Host: jason-Aspire-7520 Kernel: 3.0.0-22-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.6.1)
Desktop: Xfce 4.8.3 (Gtk 2.24.6) info: xfce4-panel dm: lightdm Distro: Linux Mint 12 Lisa
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ lisa main upstream import
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ oneiric partner
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ oneiric free non-free
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gnome3-team-gnome3-oneiric.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu oneiric main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu oneiric main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ricotz-testing-oneiric.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu oneiric main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu oneiric main

[zerozero]

2 questions:
- which lisa ed. you have installed exactly?
- did you installed anything (as far as you know?) from the gnome3 and ricotz ppa's?

[JPClyde]

1. All I know it's Linux Mint 12 Lisa 64bit Gnome3
2. No not as far as I know, I've always let update run without checking, the only things I have installed is Chronium, Wine, PlayOnlinux and a couple of desktops/windows managers.

[zerozero]

disable those 2 ppa's; they have gnome3 libraries that are newer than the ones cinnamon requires to run. you have to disable the main repo and the source as well (deb-src)
those ppa's are intended to be used as cutting-edge/experimental software and are not stable.
after that (assuming that you don't have any of those libs in the system) run

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apt update

and try again

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apt install cinnamon

let's see the errors now

[JPClyde]

Same errors:


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.
cinnamon : Depends: gir1.2-muffin-3.0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcogl5 (>= 1.7.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libmuffin0 (>= 1.0.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[zerozero]

i'm starting to believe that the ricotz and gnome3 ppa's did installed (or upgraded) some lib in your system;
you can check that with some apt-cache policy (in order to provide better readings you should enable again those 2 ppa's and do an apt update before)
after that let's check

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apt policy cinnamon libclutter-1.0-0 libcogl5 libmuffin0 gir1.2-muffin-3.0 mutter

[JPClyde]

This is what I get:

in0 gir1.2-muffin-3.0 mutter
cinnamon:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.4.0
Version table:
1.4.0 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ lisa/main amd64 Packages
gir1.2-muffin-3.0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.0.2
Version table:
1.0.2 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ lisa/main amd64 Packages
libmuffin0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.0.2
Version table:
1.0.2 0
700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ lisa/main amd64 Packages
mutter:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.4.1+git20120514.81930ca7-0ubuntu1~11.10~ricotz0
Version table:
3.4.1+git20120514.81930ca7-0ubuntu1~11.10~ricotz0 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
3.2.2-0ubuntu1~oneiric1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
3.2.1-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/universe amd64 Packages
3.2.0-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages

[zerozero]

there's 2 missing

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apt policy libclutter-1.0-0 libcogl5

sorry for being such a pain

[JPClyde]

It's ok, I thought it said fifteen not L5.

Here's the extra:


libclutter-1.0-0:
Installed: 1.11.3+git20120515.1f7ff75a-0ubuntu1~11.10~ricotz0
Candidate: 1.11.3+git20120522.ee708d1c-0ubuntu1~11.10~ricotz0
Version table:
1.11.3+git20120522.ee708d1c-0ubuntu1~11.10~ricotz0 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
*** 1.11.3+git20120515.1f7ff75a-0ubuntu1~11.10~ricotz0 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.8.4-2~oneiric2 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
1.8.0-1~svn1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
libcogl5:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.8.0-1~svn1
Version table:
1.8.0-1~svn1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[zerozero]

ok, we found at least one guilty

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libclutter-1.0-0:
Installed: 1.11.3+git20120515.1f7ff75a-0ubuntu1~11.10~ricotz0

this is bad libclutter is a very important lib in the gnome3/cinnamon ecosystem and you have a version higher than you should (coming from ricotz, that breaks cinnamon and eventually gnome-shell as well)

your options:
- synaptic has an option to force a previous version of a given pkg: highlight the pkg, and then in the menu > package > force version (i'm not too sure how this will work because as i said libclutter is a very important piece of the system)
- ppa-purge (is on the repos) is a package that will attempt to downgrade to the default version any lib/pgk that you installed from a ppa that you are now trying to purge; usually works well (but you have to search the webs for the howto i don't usually run ubuntu-based systems and on debian we don't have ppa's )
- http://www.webupd8.org/2012/07/y-ppa-ma ... eased.html looks also interesting (but again i never tried it)

what i know for sure is that you have to purge those ppa's and the libs they installed

[JPClyde]

I'm trying the purge now, but would it be better as my knowledge of linux is non-existent to just re-install Mint?

[zerozero]

re-install is a non-learning experience (most of the times) trying to fix it and get out of the mess we made is the real learning curve (of course all this has a limit: there's no point go overboard and lose the fun in it)

[JPClyde]

WooHoo, we fixed it, I feel like the brainiest person on the planet

I disabled ricotz from Software Sources, then in Synaptic I searched for libclutter, then looked for all the ones that had the version 1.11.3+git20120522.ee708d1c-0ubuntu1~11.10~ricotz0 and forced version to 1.8.4-2~oneiric2, the only one it didn't work and wanted to install was libclutter-1.0-common it has stayed as 1.11.3+git20120522.ee708d1c-0ubuntu1~11.10~ricotz0

Then I retried installing Cinnamon and bingo it's running, the only thing now is to find out if anything else has changed that used the problem libs.

Thank you for your help, I wish I could buy you a pint

[zerozero]

good

tomorrow have 2 (one for me )