Package System Broken

[Bashing-om]

blueboy1; Sorry,
That last of mine was thoughtless-ness on my part ..Got to have admin privileges - sudo !
do:

sudo apt-get remove winetricks
sudo apt-get remove initramfs-tools-bin

And Yes ! code tags makes it much easier to read that output -- formatting helps greatly !

still look'n to see what we can do

[blueboy1]

alrick@Home:~$ sudo apt-get remove winetricks
[sudo] password for alrick: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (< 0.99ubuntu13.2~) but 0.99ubuntu13.2 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

alrick@Home:~$ sudo apt-get remove initramfs-tools-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (>= 0.99ubuntu13.1) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (< 0.99ubuntu13.2~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
alrick@Home:~$

[Bashing-om]

blueboy1; Well .......

I continue to flounder .. still looking for a solution .. I really do not think a forced removal would be any more effective than what has been attempted.
Nor do I fully understand what the package manager is telling us - 2 versions of "initramfs-tools-bin" installed ?
What results from terminal commands:

dpkg -l initramfs-tools-bin
apt-cache policy initramfs-tools-bin

EDIT: in addition:

apt-cache showpkg initramfs-tools-bin

Continue to look for a means to direct our efforts.

[blueboy1]

Here is the output.

alrick@Home:~$ dpkg -l initramfs-tools-bin
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  initramfs-tool 0.99ubuntu13.2 binaries used by initramfs-tools

alrick@Home:~$ apt-cache policy initramfs-tools-bin
initramfs-tools-bin:
  Installed: 0.99ubuntu13.2
  Candidate: 0.99ubuntu13.2
  Version table:
 *** 0.99ubuntu13.2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.99ubuntu13 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

alrick@Home:~$ apt-cache showpkg initramfs-tools-bin
Package: initramfs-tools-bin
Versions: 
0.99ubuntu13.2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language: 
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 14e601bd8c0a0905d238d89be3036fa8
 Description Language: en
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_i18n_Translation-en
                  MD5: 14e601bd8c0a0905d238d89be3036fa8

0.99ubuntu13 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
 Description Language: 
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 14e601bd8c0a0905d238d89be3036fa8
 Description Language: en
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_i18n_Translation-en
                  MD5: 14e601bd8c0a0905d238d89be3036fa8


Reverse Depends: 
  initramfs-tools,initramfs-tools-bin 0.99ubuntu13.2~
  initramfs-tools,initramfs-tools-bin 0.99ubuntu13.1
  initramfs-tools-bin:i386,initramfs-tools-bin
  initramfs-tools,initramfs-tools-bin 0.99ubuntu13.2.1~
  initramfs-tools,initramfs-tools-bin 0.99ubuntu13.2
  initramfs-tools-bin:i386,initramfs-tools-bin
  initramfs-tools,initramfs-tools-bin 0.99ubuntu13.1~
  initramfs-tools,initramfs-tools-bin 0.99ubuntu13
Dependencies: 
0.99ubuntu13.2 - libc6 (2 2.4) libudev0 (2 147) initramfs-tools-bin:i386 (0 (null)) 
0.99ubuntu13 - libc6 (2 2.4) libudev0 (2 147) initramfs-tools-bin:i386 (0 (null)) 
Provides: 
0.99ubuntu13.2 - 
0.99ubuntu13 - 
Reverse Provides:

[Bashing-om]

blueboy1;
Hey.
I do believe that confirms that there are two versions on your system .. lets see if we can get the lower version to install in place of that higher version:

sudo apt-get install initramfs-tools-bin=0.99ubuntu13
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

The result we want to see:

The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
initramfs-tools-bin
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

fingers are crossed

[blueboy1]

Here are the ouput for the codes:

alrick@Home:~$ sudo apt-get install initramfs-tools-bin=0.99ubuntu13
[sudo] password for alrick: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (>= 0.99ubuntu13.1) but 0.99ubuntu13 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

alrick@Home:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (< 0.99ubuntu13.2~) but 0.99ubuntu13.2 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

alrick@Home:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (< 0.99ubuntu13.2~) but 0.99ubuntu13.2 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

alrick@Home:~$ sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done

[Bashing-om]

blueboy1; Yuk !

This situation is contrary to all documentation I can find; Can not remove, can not install, can not change. I was fairly sure that last would resolve the dependency issue. It "looked" good to do .

I am back to the drawing board once more.

I'll Be Back

[Bashing-om]

blueboy1; Hey !

I am at my wits end on this. I do not know how to determine the why in this situation and am left with a blind how:
let's try this to FORCE the removal:
With all sources and PPAs enabled:
first in specific:

dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq initramfs-tools-bin_0.99ubuntu13.1
dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq initramfs-tools-bin_0.99ubuntu13

Now DIS-able the 3rd party PPA's and try and install:

sudo apt-get install initramfs-tools-bin

Again; this is a case;

sometimes I wonder, other times I do not know

[blueboy1]

I suppose not much has changed.

alrick@Home:~$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq initramfs-tools-bin_0.99ubuntu13.1
[sudo] password for alrick: 
dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching initramfs-tools-bin_0.99ubuntu13.1

alrick@Home:~$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq initramfs-tools-bin_0.99ubuntu13
dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching initramfs-tools-bin_0.99ubuntu13

alrick@Home:~$ sudo apt-get install initramfs-tools-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
initramfs-tools-bin is already the newest version.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (< 0.99ubuntu13.2~) but 0.99ubuntu13.2 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

[blueboy1]

Bashing-om, please take a look at page #4 at mike112 post. It is very similar to what I am experiencing. Their is only a one line difference. I tried it however and did not get the outcome as was expected. I am thinking that you could get a clue from that post.