gnome-desktop-environment can not be installed

[Robert Hilbrich]

gnome-desktop-environment is not installable, because it has a dependency on gnome-keyring-manager, which does not exist.

Original description:

The package gnome-desktop-manager is broken (after dist-upgrade to Hardy from Gutsy)

sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
Reading state information... Fertig
Einige Pakete konnten nicht installiert werden. Das kann bedeuten, dass
Sie eine unmögliche Situation angefordert haben oder dass, wenn Sie die
Unstable-Distribution verwenden, einige erforderliche Pakete noch nicht
kreiert oder aus Incoming herausbewegt wurden.

Da Sie nur eine einzige Operation angefordert haben, ist es sehr wahrscheinlich,
dass das Paket einfach nicht installierbar ist und eine Fehlermeldung über
dieses Paket erfolgen sollte.
Die folgenden Informationen helfen Ihnen vielleicht, die Situation zu lösen:

Die folgenden Pakete haben nichterfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
  gnome-desktop-environment: Hängt ab: gnome-keyring-manager (>= 2.20.0) ist aber nicht installierbar
                             Hängt ab: gnome-user-guide (>= 2.20.1) aber 2.20.0+svn20071003ubuntu2 soll installiert werden
E: Kaputte Pakete
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DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

[Renate (yollywau)]

gdm startet nur mehr im abgesicherten Modus. gnome-desktop-environment hängt ab von gnome-keyring-manager. Vielleicht hängt das zusammen???

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

May you report this in English? thanks.

[Robert Hilbrich (rhilbrich)]

Renate said:

Her GDM is starting in the save-mode. As gnome-desktop-environment is depending on gnome-keyring-manager, she asks whether that might have to do with my issue.

(Although I doubt that, I just think, it is/was a packaging issue, because it just wants gnome-keyring-manager >= 2.20.0, which cannot be installed ... ?!)

[Serverman (webmaster-serverman)]

Hello,

seems to be the same here now.

Confirmed by other users.

  gnome-desktop-environment: Hängt ab: alacarte (>= 0.11.3) soll aber nicht installiert werden
                             Hängt ab: deskbar-applet (>= 2.20.2) soll aber nicht installiert werden
                             Hängt ab: fast-user-switch-applet (>= 2.18.0) soll aber nicht installiert werden
                             Hängt ab: gnome-about (>= 2.20.2) soll aber nicht installiert werden
                             Hängt ab: gnome-core (= 1:2.20.2.2) soll aber nicht installiert werden
                             Hängt ab: gnome-keyring-manager (>= 2.20.0) ist aber nicht installierbar
                             Hängt ab: gnome-media (>= 2.20.1) soll aber nicht installiert werden
                             Hängt ab: nautilus-cd-burner (>= 2.20.0) soll aber nicht installiert werden
                             Hängt ab: sound-juicer (>= 2.20.1) soll aber nicht installiert werden

Dependency to gnome-keyring-manager is broken now.

[jnewton (nevion)]

Same here, on amd64.

[Mike Parin (mike-parin)]

Problem seems to be due to the disappearance of the gnome-keyring-manager package which the gnome-desktop-environment package depends on. See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/i386/gnome-keyring-manager and you'll see in the left hand pane that:

"There is no current release for this package in Ubuntu hardy (i386)"

In fact, the Hardy package doesn't exist for any of the architectures.

[pitwalker (pitwalker)]

I also have the same problem.

I cannot reinstall my broken gnome because the package "gnome-keyring-manager" deb file lack from the lepository,
only shows on the list (with 1 byte size)

When I try to install "gnome-desktop-environment" synaptic halts of this error:
"gnome-desktop-environment:
 Függ ettől: gnome-keyring-manager (>=2.20.0) but it is not installable" (depends)

When I try to install "gnome":
"gnome:
 Függ ettől: gnome-desktop-environment, de az nincs telepítésre megjelölve" (depends, but not marked to install)

[Matthias Rampke (matthias-rampke)]

I have (had) the same problem when installing Gnome on Kubuntu. Apparently gnome-keyring-manager was pulled out of the hardy-dev-repository on 2008-02-09 (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/i386/gnome-keyring-manager/).

I worked around it by downloading the archived .deb from there and installing it with "dpkg -i". Then gnome installed without problems.

After startup it had no window manager, but that was probably unrelated (missing compiz and/or theme, bug 194022).

[Stephen Donnelly (stephen-endace)]

This is still broken in May.

If gnome-desktop-environment is not the correct meta-package to use, which package/task etc can be used to install the gnome environment?

I also note a forum post from another user: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770987

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: gnome-keyring-manager (>= 2.20.0) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

[Matthew Meyer (osarusan)]

This is still broken in June now...

[Florent Guiliani (florent-guiliani)]

Same here :

flgu@flyordi:~/tmp/trader$ sudo aptitude install gnome-keyring-manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No candidate version found for gnome-keyring-manager
No candidate version found for gnome-keyring-manager
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
flgu@flyordi:~/tmp/trader$

with the following repositories:

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe

[Stephen Donnelly (stephen-endace)]

As a possible workaround I used tasksel to install the 'Ubuntu desktop' task, this does not seem to depend on gnome-keyring-manager.

I haven't rebooted yet to see if the complete Ubuntu Gnome environment is present.

[nine (niin-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Same here:

root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install -s gnome-desktop-environment
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: gnome-keyring-manager (>= 2.20.0) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
root@ubuntu:~#

[[e-mail] (gatofalla)]

Stephen Donnelly's right. Had the same problem, found this page, and tasksel allowed me to install Gnome when I chose to install Ubuntu Desktop.

I've been using apt-get install several times, right down to attempting installing the gnome-keyring-manager package (which can't be installed). Tried aptitude as well, but I was doing that blindly. The solution was here all along - tasksel.

Suggestion for next update: get apt-get to recommend using tasksel if possible...

Thanks, Stephen!!!!

[Frank Haverkamp (f-haverkamp)]

I see the same issue still on my system which is amd64. Are there no plans to fix this item??

[[e-mail] (gatofalla)]

Hi, Frank. Open up a terminal and type tasksel. Then select Ubuntu Desktop.

[Johannes Staffans (jstaffans)]

Using tasksel for installing Ubuntu Desktop results in:

tasksel: aptitude failed (100)

I am installing Hardy under VMWare. Ideas?

[Angelo Meneghini (angelomen)]

I have had the same problem, but when installing with dpkg -i the gnome-keyring-manager the system asked for launchpad-integration0, and I had launchpad-integration1. I installed also launchpad-integration0. Now the system is installing gnome, hope it wil run

[Nick (ntzaperas)]

August..

[moli (f-launchpad-moli-hu)]

so is this what the long term in LTS stands for?
i have the same problem.

[bronto (bronto)]

Well, this is still present on amd64....

[corenominal (corenominal)]

Same here:

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corenominal@kermit:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: gnome-keyring-manager (>= 2.20.0) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
---

[Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer)]

Looks like it's a duplicate of bug#216756.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Juan - Yes, you are correct. I have marked this report and all it's duplicates as a duplicate of that report, as it appears to have been nominated for SRU.

Thanks