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mattyd24
April 24th, 2010, 05:42 AM
My OS is Mint 8 (Helena) main, Gnome, but it is very similar to Ubuntu so I'm seeking some help here.

I've been trying to fix this problem for quite a few days now and have done a lot of searching on these forums, Linux Mint Forums and some others Google lead me to and have has some success, but am now stuck.

I have posted a thread on this same topic on the Linux Mint Forums, but have had no success (if you want check it out at: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=46343)

Originally I received error messages when trying to update involving certain repositories which couldn't be accessed (because they either didn't exist or had been moved) and I hunted these down and changed or removed them.

Then I received simply:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
which I somehow managed to fix along the way.

Now I simply receive this:
Could not apply changes!
Fix broken packages first.

I have done much searching, etc. and cannot find any broken packages. I have tried many many different commands which have mostly done nothing.
I seem to be in a similar boat to this person: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=44949
Please help!

SOLUTION: See the above link for the solution, I simply had repos added for different dists, not knowing that this was bad.

zvacet
April 25th, 2010, 12:07 AM
Synaptic>edit tab>fix broken packages

mattyd24
April 25th, 2010, 03:38 AM
Synaptic>edit tab>fix broken packages

Thanks for your reply, I tried this already, but just to be sure I tried it again. It doesn't appear to do anything, then after a second it says at the bottom something like 'Fixed broken dependencies', but I still the same error message :(