What is going on with my system ? { SOLVED }

[zerozero]

i just realised that that command won't work in your system, has to be

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apt-cache policy libwbclient0

[scotthge]

Again you are right[u but][/u] I have 2.3.6.6-3 installed and for some reason I am unable to UN-install it because I have unmet dependencies and broken packages. No matter what I try to do, I can not resolve the broken packages.

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glenn@laptop:~$ apt-cache policy libwbclient0
libwbclient0:
  Installed: 2:3.6.6-3
  Candidate: 2:3.6.6-3
  Version table:
 *** 2:3.6.6-3 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:3.6.6-2 0
        500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/ testing/main amd64 Packages


[zerozero]

2.3.6.6-3 is the version available in testing and sid see here
this means that the change of repos you were talking about in the beginning of this topic was made not long ago and you are ahead of the default repos (what is not a good thing)

i can see (tested with a dry-run here) that you can't remove it (it would remove far too important parts of the system) but can you downgrade it?
try synaptic > search for the package and select it > then in the menu > package > force version > and in the popup window choose the older version

be very careful with that, synaptic will warn you about the packages that it will remove (if any), if it doesn't look good don't do it

[scotthge]

Zerozero you are the greatest. Everything went flawless and I even learnt something.

I can not thank you enough for generous time. I am going to mark this thread as solved because as far as I can see things are the way that they are suppose to be.

Thank you so much,
scottjge

[squeezy]

... debian has this useful snapshot of old archives at http://snapshot.debian.org/ ...

This is the best link! You're a goldmine of info, zerozero

[zerozero]

as far as I can see things are the way that they are suppose to be.

glad you got it sorted

You're a goldmine of info

still learning my friend, still learning

[sigshane]

I had a similar problem when I (mistakenly) tried to install gnome 3 over cinnamon (duh now!).

Anyway, I couldn't remove gnome-core, cause it depended gnome, which required gdm, blah blah, kinda like your issue. I could not remove these because of dependencies.

So I ran sudo apt-get remove gnome gnome-core gdm -f, which worked beautifully. Removing all of them simultaneously eliminated the dependencies!

Shane