In response to your email<div><br></div><div><div>Reading package lists... Done</div><div>Building dependency tree </div><div>Reading state information... Done</div><div>Package 'qgis' is not installed, so not removed</div>
<div>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.</div><div>nizzok@eratosthenes:~$ sudo apt-get install qgis</div><div>Reading package lists... Done</div><div>Building dependency tree </div><div>Reading state information... Done</div>
<div>Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have</div><div>requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable</div><div>distribution that some required packages have not yet been created</div>
<div>or been moved out of Incoming.</div><div>The following information may help resolve the situation:</div><div><br></div><div>The following packages have unmet dependencies:</div><div> qgis : Depends: qgis-providers (= 1.8.0-1~quantal1) but it is not going to be installed</div>
<div> Depends: qgis-common (= 1.8.0-1~quantal1) but 1.9.0+git20121015+5afd739~precise-ubuntugis1 is to be installed</div><div> Recommends: qgis-plugin-globe but it is not going to be installed</div><div> Recommends: qgis-plugin-grass but it is not going to be installed</div>
<div>E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.</div><div><br></div><div>and the same if qgis was purged</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Rudi von Staden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rudivs@gmail.com" target="_blank">rudivs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Okay, that doesn't look too bad, Nicholas. Definitely change the "precise" to "quantal" in your <a href="http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> repo (or disable it entirely by putting a # in front of the deb and deb-src entries - you shouldn't need anything there to get qgis working). You only have the one ppa enabled, which is the right one if you want to install qgis 1.8.0. <div>
<div><br></div><div>What happens if you run the following commands?</div><div>sudo apt-get update</div><div>sudo apt-get remove qgis</div><div>sudo apt-get install qgis</div><div><div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">
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</div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Nicholas Efremov-Kendall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:n.e.kendall@gmail.com" target="_blank">n.e.kendall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Hi Rudi,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance and here you go:</div><div><br></div><div>$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list | grep ppa</div><div># deb <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/olivier-berten/geo/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/olivier-berten/geo/ubuntu</a> quantal main # disabled on upgrade to quantal</div>
<div># deb-src <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/olivier-berten/geo/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/olivier-berten/geo/ubuntu</a> quantal main # disabled on upgrade to quantal</div><div># deb <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/sharpie/for-science/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/sharpie/for-science/ubuntu</a> quantal main # disabled on upgrade to quantal</div>
<div># deb-src <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/sharpie/for-science/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/sharpie/for-science/ubuntu</a> quantal main # disabled on upgrade to quantal</div><div># deb <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/sharpie/postgis-stable/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/sharpie/postgis-stable/ubuntu</a> quantal main # disabled on upgrade to quantal</div>
<div># deb-src <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/sharpie/postgis-stable/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/sharpie/postgis-stable/ubuntu</a> quantal main # disabled on upgrade to quantal</div><div>deb <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu</a> quantal main # disabled on upgrade to quantal</div>
<div>deb-src <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu</a> quantal main # disabled on upgrade to quantal</div><div>
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</div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div><div># deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1)]/ natty main restricted</div><div><br></div><div># See <a href="http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes" target="_blank">http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes</a> for how to upgrade to</div>
<div># newer versions of the distribution.</div><div>deb <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal main restricted</div><div>deb-src <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal main restricted</div>
<div><br></div><div>## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the</div><div>## distribution.</div><div>deb <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal-updates main restricted</div>
<div>deb-src <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal-updates main restricted</div><div><br></div><div>## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu</div>
<div>## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any</div><div>## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.</div><div>deb <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal universe</div>
<div>deb-src <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal universe</div><div>deb <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal-updates universe</div>
<div>deb-src <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal-updates universe</div><div><br></div><div>## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu </div>
<div>## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to </div><div>## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in </div><div>## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu</div>
<div>## security team.</div><div>deb <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal multiverse</div><div>deb-src <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal multiverse</div>
<div>deb <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal-updates multiverse</div><div>deb-src <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> quantal-updates multiverse</div>
<div><br></div><div>## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'</div><div>## repository.</div><div>## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as</div><div>## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes</div>
<div>## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.</div><div>## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review</div><div>## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.</div>
<div># deb <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> natty-backports main restricted universe multiverse</div><div># deb-src <a href="http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> natty-backports main restricted universe multiverse</div>
<div><br></div><div>deb <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> quantal-security main restricted</div><div>deb-src <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> quantal-security main restricted</div>
<div>deb <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> quantal-security universe</div><div>deb-src <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> quantal-security universe</div>
<div>deb <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> quantal-security multiverse</div><div>deb-src <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> quantal-security multiverse</div>
<div><br></div><div>## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's</div><div>## 'partner' repository.</div><div>## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the</div>
<div>## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.</div><div>deb <a href="http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu</a> quantal partner</div><div># deb-src <a href="http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu</a> natty partner</div>
<div><br></div><div>## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party</div><div>## developers who want to ship their latest software.</div><div><div> deb <a href="http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> precise main</div>
<div> deb-src <a href="http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> precise main</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Rudi von Staden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rudivs@gmail.com" target="_blank">rudivs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Nicholas,<div><br></div><div>It sounds like your repositories are in a bit of a mixed-up state if you upgraded to 12.10 (quantal) and your sources.list has repos from 12.04 (precise). Also if your sources gui is broken, you might need to get ubuntu to a stable state before looking at qgis. The first step is to check what repositories and ppa's you have enabled. Could you attach or paste your full /etc/apt/sources.list file? Also the output of this command run from the terminal: </div>
<div>cat /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list | grep ppa</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Rudi</div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Nicholas Efremov-Kendall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:n.e.kendall@gmail.com" target="_blank">n.e.kendall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Rudi,<div><br></div><div>Yes, at this point I just want to go back to a stable version. i've changed my repos in etc/apt/sources.list to </div>
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<br></div></div><div><div> deb <a href="http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> precise main</div></div><div><div> deb-src <a href="http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> precise main</div>
</div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>and I still get this as an error in terminal. </div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div> qgis : Depends: qgis-providers (= 1.8.0-1~quantal1) but 1.9.0+git20121014+2754df0~precise1 is to be installed</div>
</div></div><div><div><div> Depends: qgis-common (= 1.8.0-1~quantal1) but 1.9.0+git20121015+5afd739~precise-ubuntugis1 is to be installed</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>So, how do I roll back to 1.8? Also, my software sources gui is broken.<div>
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<div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Rudi von Staden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rudivs@gmail.com" target="_blank">rudivs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Nicholas,<div><br></div><div>My guess would be that during the upgrade, some of your repositories were turned off. qgis (1.74+1.75~20120320-1.1) is the version in the 12.10 ubuntu repository, but it looks like you previously installed qgis from the master repository (1.9.0+git20121015+5afd739~precise-ubuntugis1).</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you still want to use the cutting-edge qgis version, check in your software sources (Ubuntu Software Center > Edit > Software Sources; then Other Software tab) for something with "<a href="http://qgis.org/debian-nightly" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/debian-nightly</a>" in it. Check that it now reads "<a href="http://qgis.org/debian-nightly" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/debian-nightly</a> quantal", and enable it. Then from the command line, run "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qgis". If that still doesn't work, I'd remove qgis (sudo apt-get remove qgis), and then try to reinstall it (sudo apt-get install qgis).</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you'd rather revert to a more stable and tested version of qgis, the instructions may be different...</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Rudi</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Nicholas Efremov-Kendall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:n.e.kendall@gmail.com" target="_blank">n.e.kendall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi All,<div><br></div><div>Still having issues with my ubuntu install. I just upgraded to 12.10, but I was having problems before. It looks like the system is expecting 1.7 dependencies, but tries to install 1.9 and fails.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>The following packages have unmet dependencies:</div><div> qgis : Depends: qgis-providers (= 1.7.4+1.7.5~20120320-1.1) but 1.9.0+git20121014+2754df0~precise1 is to be installed</div><div> Depends: qgis-common (= 1.7.4+1.7.5~20120320-1.1) but 1.9.0+git20121015+5afd739~precise-ubuntugis1 is to be installed</div>
<div> Recommends: qgis-plugin-grass but it is not going to be installed</div><div>E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas?</div>
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