error repairing broken packages - mainly: gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64

[Larry Wilson]

Working on Ubuntu Desktop 15.04, on a Lenovo X200 laptop.

My little project that led to this: I was getting a DVB-T USB device to work, then installed the gnome-dvb-control to get EPG info.

went to
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/DVBDaemon?action=show&redirect=DVBDaemon
and added the repository as per page "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-dvb-daemon"
to get the latest version to hopefully recognise the Avermedia A800 device. It was incorrectly recognising it as a DiCom.

Now all this led to a Broken Package situation, as below (which is what I now need to fix):

someone@system01:~$ sudo apt-get --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad libde265-0 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386
  libgstreamer1.0-0 libgstreamer1.0-0:i386 libx265-59
Suggested packages:
  frei0r-plugins gstreamer-codec-install:i386 gnome-codec-install:i386
  gstreamer1.0-tools:i386 libx265-59-dbg
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libde265-0 libx265-59
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386lsb_release -rd
  libgstreamer1.0-0 libgstreamer1.0-0:i386
6 to upgrade, 2 to newly install, 1 to remove and 20 not to upgrade.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/7,352 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 259524 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad_1.5.0.1+git20150513-1~ppa15.04+2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64 (1.5.0.1+git20150513-1~ppa15.04+2) over (1.4.5-1ubuntu2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad_1.5.0.1+git20150513-1~ppa15.04+2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-1.0/libgstvideoparsersbad.so', which is also in package gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers:amd64 1.4.5-1ubuntu2
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad_1.5.0.1+git20150513-1~ppa15.04+2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
someone@system01:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers 1.4.5-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-30.34-generic 3.19.8-ckt6
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Oct 15 19:35:15 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-02 (134 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gst-plugins-bad1.0
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Larry Wilson (larry2311)]

ended up using the advise on this url:
http://iasptk.com/ubuntu-fix-broken-package-best-solution/