yade installation issues

Asked by george

Good evening,
I apologise if this is a relatively simple question but
I am trying to install yade in my ubuntu 16.04.03
by running sudo apt-get install yade
(yadedaily behaves similarly)

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:
 yade : Depends: gtk2-engines-pixbuf but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

i consequently try sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf and 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:
 gtk2-engines-pixbuf : Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.24.30-1ubuntu1) but 2.24.30-1ubuntu1.16.04.2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

and lastly i try sudo apt install libgtk2.0-0 and get
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libgtk2.0-0 is already the newest version (2.24.30-1ubuntu1.16.04.2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

i have no idea what to do
Any help is really appreciated.
Thanks

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Best Anton Gladky (gladky-anton) said :
#1

2017-11-30 0:02 GMT+01:00 george <email address hidden>:
> gtk2-engines-pixbuf : Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.24.30-1ubuntu1) but 2.24.30-1ubuntu1.16.04.2 is to be installed

This is the source of the problem. Is it i386 package on amd64 box?
Try to force install of libgtk2.0-0=2.24.30-1ubuntu1 and then
gtk2-engines-pixbuf
Pay attention on what the system responses. There is a risk to
uninstall half of the system.

Cheers

Anton

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george (coder345) said :
#2

hello,
thanks for the response!
how do i find out if it is i386 package on amd64 box
also, how do i force install something?
lthank you

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george (coder345) said :
#3

Thanks Anton Gladky, that solved my question.

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george (coder345) said :
#4

Thank you!
it installed
now to dig into the real fun :-)