[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 1317028] Re: Installing Playonlinux removes thousands of packages

[Josh Black]

The only reason this happens is when you have conflicting lists of
packages in multiple repositories. This is usually caused by using PPA's
with conflicting packages, and from what I can see, you have a bunch of
PPA's installed, and packages dependent on each other must be fighting
for dependencies and versions of those specific packages. They are
commented out, sure, but I think that however you have been managing
packages is messing things up. From the screenshot you posted, your
problem is likely with the xorg-edgers PPA, as you have it commented
out, it can no longer see those versions of those packages, and
therefore needs to uninstall them. This is not a PlayOnLinux issue, as
no one is reporting this. This is specific to your package manager, as
it is broken from package conflicts. It is not a bug. Please remove all
PPA's, downgrade your packages, and try to install PlayOnLinux again.

** Changed in: playonlinux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Installing Playonlinux removes thousands of packages

Status in “playonlinux” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I want to install playonlinux but the dependecies will remove all of
  the following packages for some reason

  Sudo apt-get install playonlinux
  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 resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   playonlinux : Depends: wine or
                          wine-unstable but it is not installable
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
  bober at BoberBot:~$ 

  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

  Synaptic shows almost all my packages as need to be removed

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