Bug#720117: gnome-desktop-environment does not install

doronw internet at doronw.net
Sun Aug 18 19:06:20 UTC 2013


Package: gnome-desktop-environment
Version: sid
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I cannot install gnome-desktop-environment

After runningi
# apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment

I get

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:
 gnome-desktop-environment : Depends: gnome (>= 1:3.8+2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

dpkg --get-selections | grep held

does not return anything. 
This is also done on a fresh install (without desk-top)

My sources.list file is:

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib

#apt-get install gnome-shell 
returns:

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:
 gnome-shell : Depends: gir1.2-clutter-1.0 (>= 1.9.16) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: gir1.2-mutter-3.0 (>= 3.4.1) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libclutter-1.0-0 (>= 1.10.0) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libmutter0 (>= 3.4) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libmutter0 (< 3.5) but it is not going to be installed
               Recommends: gnome-control-center but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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