Unable to install muon. How to solve this?

[fernandocabral]

I am trying to install muon, but I get the following message:

Following packages have dependencies that can not be satisfied:
muon : depends on: libmuonprivate2 (= 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1) mas has not been installed
E: It is impossible to fix the problem, you have hold broken packages.

(I have translated the message back from Portuguese into English so the wording might differ from those you are used to).

What can I do to figure out which one is the broken package?

[Alley Oop]

libmuonprivate2 is not installed with muon package for some reason, however it is in package manger if you want to try installing it first then installing muon.

[Reorx]

The error message is telling you that muon depends on libmuonprivate2 and that that the installer can't find libmuonprivate2. I don't know why because libmuonprivate2 is in the repos!... Try manually installing libmuonprivate2 from the repos >>>

[Mute Ant]

muon : depends on: libmuonprivate2 (= 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1)

The '=' means an exact match is needed between muon and the library, any old libmuonprivate2 will not be good enough. If this is not automatically resolved it can be because the version of 'muon' is wrong for the repository you are connected to. The cure in that case is to reinstall the master application and give apt a chance at fetching the correct package versions, checking carefully that the reinstall doesn't try to remove the whole Desktop Environment in a misguided effort to resolve one problem...

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sudo apt-get update  &&  sudo apt-get install --reinstall muon

...is usually safe.

[fernandocabral]

Thank you all, guys. Almost by accident I found a reference to software-properties-kde, then I ran
sudo apt-get install software-properties-kde

After that, I tried installing muon again and it worked.

- fernando