So I tried $ sudo apt-get install apt-xapian-indexĪpt-xapian-index : Depends: python-xapian (>= 1.0.2) but it is not going to be installedĭepends: python-apt (>= 0.7.93.2) but it is not going to be installedĭepends: python-debian (>= 0.1.14) but it is not going to be installedĪnd found out the issue is with other programs as well like $ sudo apt-get install meld Or sudo apt-get -o dpkg::options::='-force-confnew' -o dpkg::options::='-force-confmiss' -reinstall install muonĭid not help. Sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get dist-upgrade from ) does not help: sudo apt-get autoremove Muon : Depends: apt-xapian-index but it is not going to be installedĮ: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. The following packages have unmet dependencies:

The following information may help to resolve the situation: Requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstableĭistribution that some required packages have not yet been created It started with me not being able to install muon with sudo apg-get install muon: $ sudo apt-get install muon I have tried quite a bit since then and have an idea what's the problem, but don't know the steps to accomplish this. I started trying to solve this by asking on ubuntu but I did not get any answer there. The Reason I tried to install python 2.7.10 is because I needed it for another program (because of issues with ssl / openssl of python 2.7.6), but now I just want to get my system repaired - just let it be python 2.7.6. Type 'help', 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information. The reason why I think this is: $ apt-cache policy python I think I have to reset dpkg somehow, but I am really no expert. I suspect that this has something to do with the file /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/available and /var/lib/dpkg/info/* particularily the first. I am not able to repair it with the standard commands I suspect that my dpkg is somehow confused/broken regarding the python installation. On my Kubuntu 14.4 (which has python 2.7.6 as standard) my python is broken after I tried to install python 2.7.10 after building from source from with the help of How to install the latest Python version on Debian separately or upgrade?.

Curl install meld