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running schooltool on ubuntu on a pendrive

Asked by Dave Green

I am running ubuntu from a pendrive, will I be able to install and use schooltool from it as well? I've tried with a few versions and not getting it to work. Schooltool is running well from a dual boot but not from the pendrive.
This is what I get when I try to install on pendrive

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 schooltool : Depends: python-schooltool (>= 1:1.9) but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: python-schooltool.gradebook but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: python-schooltool.lyceum.journal but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: python-schooltool.intervention but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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Gediminas Paulauskas (menesis) said : 		#1

Not sure what is wrong. Maybe some other installation is broken?

Try doing it again.

$ sudo apt-get install schooltool

And paste here the full output. The last few lines only tell that something could not be installed.

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Dave Green (evadneerg) said : 		#2

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install schooltool
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:
 schooltool : Depends: python-schooltool (>= 1:1.9) but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: python-schooltool.gradebook but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: python-schooltool.lyceum.journal but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: python-schooltool.intervention but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: python-schooltool.cando but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

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Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman) said : 		#3

What version of Ubuntu is this?

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Dave Green (evadneerg) said : 		#4

To answer Tom Hoffman's question ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-i386.
After checking around for similar problems on the web I realize and fixed two issue:
1. The USB either wasn't created as a Live Ubuntu USB or with the persistent option even though the application I used to create it had the option and I chose the maximum size allowed or when it booted from the USB it didn't load with it. I since then tried a number of other application and found one that work; live-usb-install-2.3.8. The second issue was to enable the universe option in software center.

When I now boot from the pendrive, I'm given the option to boot to the persistent version. Schooltool is now installed and is accessible every time I reboot to the pendrive.

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Dave Green (evadneerg) said : 		#5

With that my problem is solved, now I can move on to exploring the application. Thanks to everyone for their effort.