Dependency Problem

[cortman]

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.

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.

Hi, what is the output of

sudo apt-get install libjpeg62

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

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

[schragge]

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

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

should work.

[prohank]

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

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

should work.

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!

[prohank]

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 .
It would again need downloading the packages which is very time consuming.
Thank you for all the support