Cannot install tasksel

**cuebiz** · January 10th, 2013

I am trying to install tasksel using the command

Code:

sudo apt-get install tasksel

but I get the following error....

Code:

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:
 initramfs-tools : Breaks: console-setup (< 1.72) but 1.34ubuntu15 is to be installed
 initscripts : Breaks: console-setup (< 1.74) but 1.34ubuntu15 is to be installed
 libglib2.0-0 : Breaks: gvfs (< 1.8) but 1.6.4-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Before running the install, I added the souce 'deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main' as mentioned in http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/tasksel/download

What am I doing wrong?

**steeldriver** · January 10th, 2013

Hello and welcome

If you really need tasksel it should be in the standard repository - why do you think you need to add a Debian repository?

Alternatively there may be easier / better ways to install the components you want (ssh server? LAMP?) directly

**Cheesemill** · January 10th, 2013

Originally Posted by cuebiz

Before running the install, I added the souce 'deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main' as mentioned in http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/tasksel/download

That's what you've done wrong.

You've added a Debian source to your Ubuntu machine. This will break everything in your installation pretty quickly. What made you think you had to add it? The standard Ubuntu repositories already contain tasksel.

Remove the line you've added to your sources.list then just do...

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tasksel

**cuebiz** · January 10th, 2013

Thank you Cheesemill and steeldriver. I am not able to find tasksel in Synaptic Package Manager

This is what I get if I run the install without this source added

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package tasksel is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'tasksel' has no installation candidate

**steeldriver** · January 10th, 2013

what version of Ubuntu are you running?

**Cheesemill** · January 10th, 2013

It's definitely in the main Ubuntu repository...
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...ll&section=all

Did you run...

Code:

sudo apt-get update

first?

If you still don't have any luck can you post the output of...

Code:

cat -n /etc/apt/sources.list

**cuebiz** · January 10th, 2013

I am using 10.10

yes, I did run update. It gave few 404 errors. Would that be a problem?

I am attaching my source.lst

**arpanaut** · January 10th, 2013

10.10 has passed End of Life

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades
those repositories do not exist you will need to upgrade to a supported release or reinstall.

**lukeiamyourfather** · January 10th, 2013

Originally Posted by arpanaut

10.10 has passed End of Life

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades
those repositories do not exist you will need to upgrade to a supported release or reinstall.

To the original poster, if you need an install to be supported for an extended period of time use an LTS release like 12.04 LTS (supported until April of 2017).