Dependency Problem

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Originally Posted by prohank

Yeah I am using precisely what u said.:)
I haven't spend much time on Ubuntu also I am learning the command line along with college stuff so don't get enough time to do all this.
Can you please say what do u mean by "rebuilding the system"?
I will reinstall it again but as I said those errors were from ubuntu restricted extras and not from the backed up data so will it cause any harm if I restore previous backups,because they contain some important data.
and there was no other option to save the data files.
Thanks for the help.

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I meant if you haven't put a lot of time into installing new programs, arranging your data, etc., then a reinstall is the easiest.
You should be able to just restore your data, and not the old programs and settings.

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Originally Posted by sandyd

Hi, what is the output of

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sudo apt-get install libjpeg62

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libjpeg62 doesn't depend on anything so something must be blocking it

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Is apt going to go through and function in spite of all the package issues? I'm not sure.

IIRC, apt always tries to configure already downloaded and unpacked packages, but

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sudo apt-get -d install libjpeg62
sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libjpeg62*.deb

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should work.

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Originally Posted by schragge

IIRC, apt always tries to configure already downloaded and unpacked packages, but

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sudo apt-get -d install libjpeg62
sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libjpeg62*.deb

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should work.

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I found no libjpeg62 file at the above directory.Also I found that none of the other dependency files were in there.
So I manually downloaded it and going to report if it solves the problem.
Thanks!

okay guys that did the trick.
Only one problem, I just want it to confirm.
I restored the backups from deja vu and ran the update(sudo apt-get update) before installing ubuntu-restricted-extras(oneric).
Could that be the cause for dependency problem?
If I had installed it first and then restored the backups and ran the update would it still be a problem?
Because I don't know how many times I would have to reinstall Ubuntu in future and run into trouble again :p.
It would again need downloading the packages which is very time consuming.
Thank you for all the support
:)