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Unity having "Damaged Packages" upon reinstall over Gnome 3

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When I got Gnome installed over Unity, on login I couldn't chose to return to the standard Unity desktop. Every time I attempt the simple

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

I get the error

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:



ubuntu-desktop : Depends: ubuntu-session but it is not going to be installed

  Depends: unity-control-center but it is not going to be installed

  Depends: unity-settings-daemon but it is not going to be installed

  Recommends: xul-ext-webaccounts but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I've tried everything, but Unity refuses to reinstall, and I don't wan't to reinstall Ubuntu completely. I use Ubuntu 14.04. Please Help!!!

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answered 2 Years ago eanda · Accepted Answer

Looks like something went wrong and now the package dependencies are broken.

Go through the steps in How do I resolve unmet dependencies
to get things back in order.

Basically that's

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -f install

sudo apt-get -f install ubuntu-desktop

Make sure you keep the output from these commands. If it's still broken after that it'll give valuable info about what's going on.