Comment 9 for bug 1428972

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Wagner (wag-p11-o) wrote :

I installed the nvidia-driver-346.47 after adding xorg-edgers ppa (using sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa ) to my system.

Wanted to setup packages for openGL development. While trying to install freeglut3-dev I get the following message:
//======================== Terminal Output =======================================
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 unity-control-center : Depends: libcheese-gtk23 (>= 3.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
                        Depends: libcheese7 (>= 3.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
//======================== Terminal Output =======================================

Giving: "sudo apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade" outputs:
======================== Terminal Output =======================================
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 2
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 2
Investigating (0) libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic [ amd64 ] < 10.3.2-0ubuntu1~trusty2 > ( libs )
Broken libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic:amd64 Conflicts on libgl1-mesa-dri [ amd64 ] < none -> 10.6.0~git20150318.27bf37ba-0ubuntu0ricotz~trusty > ( libs )
  Considering libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 6 as a solution to libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic:amd64 13
  Added libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 to the remove list
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.3 for libgl1-mesa-dri but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Conflicts//Breaks against version 10.1.0-4ubuntu5 for libgl1-mesa-dri but that is not InstVer, ignoring
  Fixing libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic:amd64 via keep of libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64
Investigating (0) libgbm1 [ amd64 ] < 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.3 -> 10.6.0~git20150318.27bf37ba-0ubuntu0ricotz~trusty > ( libs )
Broken libgbm1:amd64 Depends on libgl1-mesa-dri [ amd64 ] < none -> 10.6.0~git20150318.27bf37ba-0ubuntu0ricotz~trusty > ( libs ) (= 10.6.0~git20150318.27bf37ba-0ubuntu0ricotz~trusty)
  Considering libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 6 as a solution to libgbm1:amd64 0
  Holding Back libgbm1:amd64 rather than change libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64
 Try to Re-Instate (1) libgbm1:amd64
Done
Done
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  libgbm1
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

======================== Terminal Output =======================================

Trying to install freeglut3-dev through synaptic package manager suggest I should delete the following packages:

account-plugin-aim
account-plugin-jabber
account-plugin-salut
account-plugin-yahoo
cheese
empathy
gir1.2-totem-1.0
gnome-contacts
gstreamer1.0-clutter
indicator-bluetooth
libcheese-gtk23
libcheese7
libclutter-1.0-0
libclutter-gst-2.0-0
libclutter-gtk-1.0-0
libcogl-pango15
...and many more

Trying to install cuda sdk 7 also ouputs the same message at the beginning of this comment.