Gnome Classic (no effects) - 2 issues

[Szymoninho]

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome Classic (no effects) and there are 2 very simple issues that I can't deal with:

1) I cannot install global menu applet. I tried using Synaptic and here it says that this package is broken. When I'm trying to fix it I get back:

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

Has anyone faced similar problems with the global menu?

2) this may sound funny but I have no idea how to adjust icon spacing in the top panel. Has anyone ever wondered how to do it?

I will appreciate any kind of help. Sorry if I didn't notice any threads that show solutions to these problems.

[chamber]

Try,

sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update

[Szymoninho]

thanks for your suggestion, unfortunately I still have the same problem, sudo apt-get update wrote back (after many lines of web addresses):

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7889D725DA6DEEAA
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/iaz/battery...source/Sources 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/iaz/battery...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmcenery/pp...source/Sources 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmcenery/pp...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[chamber]

Have you added in any specific PPA's outside of the standard?

You can look here to see about adding the keys for the PPA's that you are using:

https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging...20repositories

[audiomick]

Have you added in any specific PPA's outside of the standard?

I'd say yes. The error message lists a couple. My guess that it is not that the key is missing, but rather that the PPA is no longer there.

I would try and figure out what program or packages came from those PPA's and consider removing them. I would probably wait a week or so, just in case the PPA's are having temporary issues, and might reappear in time.

[philinux]

Try this.

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Post back the full error list if any.

[Szymoninho]

Have you added in any specific PPA's outside of the standard?

I have when I was experimenting a bit with my Ubuntu themes etc. Do you think removing all PPA's should fix the issue? I don't think I need any of them right now. I tried using the ppa-purge package but I'm having problems with deleting all PPA's at one time. Help doesn't mention such command although when I launch ppa-purge in Terminal it says:

ppa-purge will reset all packages from a PPA to the standard
versions released for your distribution.

[Szymoninho]

Try this.

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Post back the full error list if any.

It doesn't mention any errors.

[philinux]

Ok.

Post back the full errors from this.

sudo apt-get install -f

[Szymoninho]

Ok.

Post back the full errors from this.

sudo apt-get install -f

sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libxcb-render-util0 libgnomenu0-2 libbonoboui2-common libbonoboui2-0
  libgnomecanvas2-0 libglobalmenu-gnome libgnomecanvas2-common
  gnome-globalmenu-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 318 not upgraded

After I autoremoved them it says:

sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 318 not upgraded.

... but the bug still appears - I can't install the gnome-applet-globalmenu package (via synaptic)