"held broken package" error with download

Asked by M. Parchem

I'm trying to down load and install a game for my son and we keep getting an error message that says : (E:Unable to install you have held broken packages. I have checked the Synaptic Manager and it does not show any broken packages. Running 9.01
Thanks for any help.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Please try this...

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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M. Parchem (mparchem) said :
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Hmm ... Ok I copied and pasted everything ; it went through each of the steps and at the end it says "this operation will take an additional 172MB, do you want to continue [Y/n] " I type Y and hit enter. it comes back with "Abort" . ?

Perhaps I copied the commands wrong, should each command be separated by a space or some other character ?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Please first verify your partitions free space...

Open a terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

sudo fdisk -l

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then copy and paste result here...

Then please tell which command get you "abort" message please copy and paste it here please also post the incoming error...

Thank you

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M. Parchem (mparchem) said :
#4

ok, I see my error ... I was not hitting 'enter after every line. everything is running smooth now. Thanks for your help.

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M. Parchem (mparchem) said :
#5

Well this is embarrassing, I ran the code as you said, but when I when I went to download the game I got the same error message ? what is the next step ?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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