[SOLVED]Held Broken Packages

[SuddenButterfly]

I removed Playonlinux from my computer. I probably done it wrong. Now i'm trying to reinstall it and i receive this problem:

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:
playonlinux : Depends: icoutils but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[karlchen]

Hello, SuddenButterfly.

We will need a few more technically precise details, before being able to give any useful advice.
Please open a terminal window.

• Execute the commandline

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  inxi -Sxx

  Mark the screen output and paste it in your next reply. This will tell us which Mint version we are talking about.
• Execute the commandline

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  dpkg --list icoutils

  Mark the screen output and paste it in your next reply.
• Execute the commandline

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  apt-cache policy icoutils

  Mark the screen output and paste it in your next reply.
• Execute the commandline

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  sudo apt-get update

  and next

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  sudo apt-get install icoutils

  Mark the complete screen output and paste it in your next reply. Should help find out why icoutils cannot be installed.

Best regards,
Karl

[SuddenButterfly]

Here is reslults:

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inxi -Sxx

:
System: Host: bugra-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3) dm: lightdm
Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia

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dpkg --list icoutils

dpkg-query: no packages found matching icoutils

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sudo apt-get install icoutils

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package icoutils is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'icoutils' has no installation candidate

[karlchen]

Hi, SuddenButterfly.

And what does

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apt-cache policy icoutils

display? It should reveal, why icoutils does not have an installation candidate.

Karl

[SuddenButterfly]

It says
icoutils:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:

[Sir Charles]

Could you post the output from:

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

?

[SuddenButterfly]

Could you post the output from:

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

?

Result is :
cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list: No such file or directory

[Sir Charles]

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list: No such file or directory

That's a bit puzzling. There needs to be such a list in order for you to be able to update your system and install anything at all from the repositories.

Let's try this: open Software Sources from the application menu. Click on the "Restore the default settings" and at top right, click on "Update the cache".
Now if you run:

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

you should get the following output:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia main upstream import backport 

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ xenial partner

Now the component "universe" is relevant here since the lacking package, namely icoutils (0.31.0-3), comes from this particular repository.
(see https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/icoutils)

Now with an updated APT cache, if you run the command:

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apt-cache policy icoutils

as given above by karlchen, it should show a candidate for install.

[SuddenButterfly]

Thank you very much for both of you, this solved my problem.

[Sir Charles]

You are welcome!