Hello,
I've been having this problem with my apt on Ubuntu 20.04. After an update
my gnuradio package that was installed originally from
http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnuradio/gnuradio-releases/ubuntu seems to somehow be ahead of its dependencies. This has made the package corrupt, and I can't remove it, because apt does not want to let the package exist in this broken state. How should I start to fix this?
Whenever I try to install a package or upgrade, I get this error message:
$ sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnuradio : Depends: libgnuradio-analog (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-audio (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-blocks (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-channels (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-digital (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-dtv (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-fec (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-fft (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-filter (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-pmt (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-qtgui (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-runtime (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-trellis (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-uhd (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-video-sdl (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-vocoder (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-wavelet (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Depends: libgnuradio-zeromq (>= 3.8.1.0-0~gnuradio~focal) but it is not installed
Recommends: python3-qwt-qt5 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I then attempt to run the recommended fix, which fails with the following error message:
$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgnuradio-analog3.8.1 libgnuradio-channels3.8.1 libgnuradio-digital3.8.1 libgnuradio-dtv3.8.1 libgnuradio-fec3.8.1 libgnuradio-filter3.8.1 libgnuradio-qtgui3.8.1 libgnuradio-trellis3.8.1
libgnuradio-video-sdl3.8.1 libgnuradio-vocoder3.8.1 libgnuradio-wavelet3.8.1 libgnuradio-zeromq3.8.1 libllvm9
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libgnuradio-analog libgnuradio-audio libgnuradio-blocks libgnuradio-channels libgnuradio-digital libgnuradio-dtv libgnuradio-fec libgnuradio-fft libgnuradio-filter libgnuradio-pmt libgnuradio-qtgui
libgnuradio-runtime libgnuradio-trellis libgnuradio-uhd libgnuradio-video-sdl libgnuradio-vocoder libgnuradio-wavelet libgnuradio-zeromq
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgnuradio-analog libgnuradio-audio libgnuradio-blocks libgnuradio-channels libgnuradio-digital libgnuradio-dtv libgnuradio-fec libgnuradio-fft libgnuradio-filter libgnuradio-pmt libgnuradio-qtgui
libgnuradio-runtime libgnuradio-trellis libgnuradio-uhd libgnuradio-video-sdl libgnuradio-vocoder libgnuradio-wavelet libgnuradio-zeromq
0 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3,444 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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