Gnome-shell fails to install on lucid

[Dave Morley]

Binary package hint: gnome-shell

Gnome-shell has unmet dependencies in lucid meaning it can not install

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

tester@tester-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
[sudo] password for tester:
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.
  gnome-shell: Depends: gobject-introspection-glib-2.0 but it is not installable
               Depends: gobject-introspection-freedesktop but it is not installable
               Depends: gobject-introspection-repository but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Yup. It's been broken for a while. I'll look into it.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Ok. gnome-shell is uninstallable because the latest build failed. *This* happened because libmozjs.so isn't really a system-wide library, libgnome-shell.so (needlessly) links against it, and then the gobject introspection extractor falls over, unable to find libmozjs.

I've pushed a branch which drops the unnecessary linkage of libgnome-shell against libmozjs; this fixes the build, and makes gnome-shell installable again. I'm not totally sure it's the right solution, however, so I'll ask for some review.

[LCID Fire (lcid-fire)]

Thanks guys - it works again :)

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

It's currently broke again. Should I file a new bug?

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:
  gnome-shell: Depends: libgjs0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

[Stephan Althaus Cologne (stephan-althaus)]

The error message is now:

steven@steven-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
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:
  gnome-shell: Depends: libgjs0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

steven@steven-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install libgjs0
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:
  libgjs0: Depends: xulrunner-1.9.1 (<= 1.9.1.9~) but 1.9.1.10~hg20100324r26859+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

So i assume its only a dependency issue in the package definition?

greetings from cologne, germany,
steven

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

It currently works for me with this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/testing

[bernhard (bernhardredl)]

as of Apr 4 not fixed in repo
changed to confirmed

[bernhard (bernhardredl)]

as mentioned by Bernhard

workaround:

sudo apt-add-repository paa:ricotz/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

[Nick Read (nickread)]

The xulrunner dependency issue is a duplicate of lp:555155

> libgjs0: Depends: xulrunner-1.9.1 (<= 1.9.1.9~) but 1.9.1.10~hg20100324r26859+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~

[holstein (mikeholstein)]

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-shell: Depends: libgjs0 but it is not going to be
installed
E: Broken packages

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

The only dependency problem is due to libgjs0 package and that is this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555155

I am marking this bug as fix released, since all the other dependencies are solved.

[richard (richard-e-morton)]

I still get:

myth@t60-2:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
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.
  gnome-shell: Depends: libgjs0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

and

myth@t60-2:~$ sudo apt-get install libgjs0
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.
  libgjs0: Depends: xulrunner-1.9.2 (<= 1.9.2.9~) but 1.9.2.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

[SnippetBucket.com (tta-openerp)]

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

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:
  gnome-shell: Depends: libgjs0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

??????????? is their any solution

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

Tejaskumar, which Ubuntu version are you using ? This bug is about lucid. In the latest natty, gnome-shell cannot be so easily installed since it is somehow incompatible with the unity libs. You can either wait until Ubuntu 11.10 comes out which is supposed to have support for gnome-shell or use this how-to: http://joneslee85.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/howto-install-gnome-shell-on-natty-narwhal-11-04/