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Synaptic Package Manger Tried to fix broken strings and got this. An error occurred The following details are provided: E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may

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how do I fix thank you

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Bob (smith13) said : 		#1

Synaptic Package Manger
Tried to fix broken strings and got this.

An error occurred
The following details are provided:

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#2

Please follow this procedure and post the output for us. Thanks!
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure

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Bob (smith13) said : 		#3

on Step 3 it says ( leaving only the official Ubuntu repositories active) what ones are they? there are 11 turne on and 2 at the top that are off.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

wget https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8850924/fixpackage
chmod +x ./fixpackage
sudo ./fixpackage

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Bob (smith13) said : 		#5

       ? what do do with this??

wget https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8850924/fixpackage
chmod +x ./fixpackage
sudo ./fixpackage

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Run the 3 commands in a terminal. One after the other

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Bob (smith13) said : 		#7

Right on! that got it thanks :)