Software and other essential packages refuse to install since "Partial Upgrade"

[KBD20]

Hi, recently, after being prompted to do a partial upgrade (which I went through with), I came across an issue after the cleanup process.

There are certain programs (from synaptic/market) that refuse to install, namely VLC Media player, and gstreamer (specifically, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg), the error mentions that the package(s) have "unresolved dependancies" that it has, which I am sure are available from the download centre or synaptic.
Example:

gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg:
Depends: libavcodec53 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavformat53 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: liborc-0.4-0 (>=1:0.4.16) but 1:0.4.14-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libpostproc51 (>=5:0.9.1) but 4:0.6.2-1ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
Thanks to anyone who can help with this problem.

Also the version of Ubuntu I am using is Ubuntu 11.10 -32bit

[plucky]

Hi, recently, after being prompted to do a partial upgrade (which I went through with), I came across an issue after the cleanup process.

There are certain programs (from synaptic/market) that refuse to install, namely VLC Media player, and gstreamer (specifically, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg), the error mentions that the package(s) have "unresolved dependancies" that it has, which I am sure are available from the download centre or synaptic.
Example:
Thanks to anyone who can help with this problem.

Also the version of Ubuntu I am using is Ubuntu 11.10 -32bit

What happens if you run from a terminal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f

If no errors,then run
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If there are any errors,please post the output.

Good Luck

[mörgæs]

Partial upgrades are dangerous:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1859240

[KBD20]

Ok after using apt-get autoremove, then apt-get dist-upgrade I still get errors when force and regular installing vlc and gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg


sudo apt-get install vlc -f
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:
vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1:1.1.13-0.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavcodec53 (>= 5:0.9) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libva-x11-1 (> 1.0.14~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libva1 (> 1.0.14~) but 1.0.12-2 is to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1:1.1.13-0.0) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1:1.1.13-0.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg -f
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:
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg : Depends: libavcodec53 (>= 5:0.9.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavformat53 (>= 5:0.9.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: liborc-0.4-0 (>= 1:0.4.16) but 1:0.4.14-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.Also, the partial upgrade was offered on a final build of Ubuntu 10.10

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

Try these commands to fix the partial upgrade
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[KBD20]

Try these commands to fix the partial upgrade
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I tried this, and after disabling some obsolete sources from "software sources" the error shown when doing an apt-get update is gone, everything in that area went smoothly, however there are still issues with installing certain packages.

[KBD20]

After doing a dist-upgrade (and checking the update manager) the following updates won't install (with the output: "The following packages are to be kept back):

postproc shared libraries (libpostproc52)
MPlayer's Movie Encoder (mencoder)
Ultimate Movie Player For Linux (mplayer)

Would this have anything to do with the partial upgrade issues?