Thunar - half installed/uninstalled

[joey00]

xfce desktop. Mint 13

On a new install I decided to replace Thunar with PCManfm.

The latter is working fine, but does not pick up volume instructions, such as empty trash or delete, or even some file open commands.

Some of these are met with an error: Failed to execute program /usr/bin/Thunar: Success.

Thunar is mostly uninstalled - I realised too late that its function is more integrated than a file browser.

I tried to re-install Thunar. But that doesn't work. Synaptic just rejects the install, and apt-get claims version and dependancy issues.

Is there any way to transfer the functionality to PCManFM, or to get it to revert to Thunar?

[Toz]

Can you post back the results of trying to re-install thunar via the command line:

sudo apt-get install thunar

And yes, thunar is a little more integrated into Xfce than maybe it should be. Search the forums here for a number of other threads about trying to replace thunar with another file manager.

[Perfect Storm]

Moved to Other OS/Distro Talk.

[joey00]

Can you post back the results of trying to re-install thunar via the command line:

sudo apt-get install thunar

And yes, thunar is a little more integrated into Xfce than maybe it should be. Search the forums here for a number of other threads about trying to replace thunar with another file manager.

I did this already. The general drift seems to be; "Don't - just add the prefered one and partly disable Thunar".

The output:
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:
thunar : Depends: thunar-data (= 1.2.3-3ubuntu2) but 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1 is to be installed
Recommends: thunar-volman but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Toz]

Did you add the Xfce 4.10 PPA to your system?

What does the following return?

apt-cache policy thunar

[joey00]

I did not add a repository for Thunar. I just assumed, since it shows in synaptic, it doesnt need a specific addition..

apt-cache policy thunar returns:

thunar:

Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.2.3-3ubuntu2
Version table:
1.2.3-3ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages

[Toz]

Hmmm. I wonder then, why its trying to install thunar-data version 1.4 from a PPA?

Lets see where thunar-data is coming from. Can you post back the results of:

apt-cache policy thunar-data

...and

ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d

...as well as post back the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

[joey00]

apt-cache policy thunar-data
gives:

thunar-data:
Installed: 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1
Candidate: 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1
Version table:
*** 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.2.3-3ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages

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ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d
gives:

local-repository.list xubuntu-dev-xfce-4_10-precise.list
local-repository.list.save xubuntu-dev-xfce-4_10-precise.list.save

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sources list:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ maya main upstream import backport
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise partner
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ precise free non-free

# deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb apps
# deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb games

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Hmmm. I wonder then, why its trying to install thunar-data version 1.4 from a PPA?

Lets see where thunar-data is coming from. Can you post back the results of:

apt-cache policy thunar-data

...and

ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d

...as well as post back the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

[Toz]

thunar-data:
Installed: 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1
Candidate: 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1
Version table:
*** 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.2.3-3ubuntu2 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages

Some sort of PPA has been added that provides the newer thunar package.

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ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d
gives:

local-repository.list xubuntu-dev-xfce-4_10-precise.list
local-repository.list.save xubuntu-dev-xfce-4_10-precise.list.save

And here it is. This explains why you're having a problem - you've got some sort of Xfce 4.10 repository referenced.

1. Can you post back the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local-repository.list xubuntu-dev-xfce-4_10-precise.list

2. And can you post back the results of:

sudo apt-get update

[joey00]

Some sort of PPA has been added that provides the newer thunar package.

And here it is. This explains why you're having a problem - you've got some sort of Xfce 4.10 repository referenced.

1. Can you post back the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local-repository.list xubuntu-dev-xfce-4_10-precise.list

2. And can you post back the results of:

sudo apt-get update

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/etc/apt/sources.list.d/local-repository.list contains:

# deb file:///usr/share/local-repository binary/

xubuntu-dev-xfce-4_10-precise.list I am not finding. Where please?

?

sudo apt-get update output - see attachment.