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you have 1 broken package on you system use broken filter to locate it

Asked by Kabiru Maiyama

Binary package hint: update-manager

hi all,
please i am using ubuntu desktop 10.04 i tried installing software from Synaptic Package manager but OpenJDK, Apache, tomcat6 and other softwares refuse to install. when i closed the Synaptic package manager and open it again it prompted me with this message
"You have 1 broken package on your system!

Use the "Broken" filter to locate it."

how can i locate the broken package and resolve it.

thanks
Kabiru

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This question was originally filed as bug #673604.

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RedSingularity (redsingularity) said : 		#1

Converting to question

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said : 		#2

Open Synaptic, go to Edit menu and select Repair broken packages.

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Martin Lee (hellnest) said : 		#3

If the synaptic still can't found a broken package try to run

sudo apt-get update -f

from terminal

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#4

Did the sudo apt-get install -f got error fried the fix broken file in synaptic packag and got this error
Reading database ... 314884 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mate-keyring (from .../mate-keyring_1.0.0-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-keyring_1.0.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/libnow2day4meis8', which is also in package libgcr0 2.92.92.is.2.32.1-0ubuntu2.1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-keyring_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mint-meta-mate:
 mint-meta-mate depends on mate-keyring; however:
  Package mate-keyring is not installed.
dpkg: error processing mint-meta-mate (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mint-meta-mate

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