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I've been trying to update standard packages on my Ubuntu box. There's literally nothing extra on this box except for VirtualBox for some Windows stuff I run. Here's one output:



$ sudo apt-get update
[...]
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgail-3-0 : Depends: libgtk-3-0 (= 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2) but 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1 is installed
libgtk-3-0 : Depends: libgtk-3-common (= 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1) but 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2 is installed
libgtk-3-bin : Depends: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2) but 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1 is installed


And another with the -f option:



$ sudo apt-get -f upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libgtk-3-0 overlay-scrollbar-gtk3
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
26 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/2,397 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 203437 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libgtk-3-0:amd64 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1 (using .../libgtk-3-0_3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libgtk-3-0:amd64 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-0_3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules', which is also in package ibus-gtk3:amd64 1.4.1-7ubuntu1
Preparing to replace overlay-scrollbar-gtk3:amd64 0.2.16+r357-0ubuntu1 (using .../overlay-scrollbar-gtk3_0.2.16+r357-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement overlay-scrollbar-gtk3:amd64 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/overlay-scrollbar-gtk3_0.2.16+r357-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/modules', which is also in package libcanberra-gtk3-module:amd64 0.29-0ubuntu2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-0_3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/overlay-scrollbar-gtk3_0.2.16+r357-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Here's the output for apt-cache policy for all packages concerned: pastebin d3YcjPmJ. All seem to be from the official quantal and quantal-updates release channel and an official mirror.



I've also tried sudo apt-get -f install, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and sudo apt-get clean && sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt/archives/, but all lead to the same error.


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Ok, if you are still experiencing this problem, it happens because some package won't work if the versions of their peers aren't the same.



libgail-3-0 : Depends: libgtk-3-0 (= 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2) but 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1 is installed
libgtk-3-0 : Depends: libgtk-3-common (= 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1) but 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2 is installed
libgtk-3-bin : Depends: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2) but 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1 is installed


As you can see libgail-3-0 requires libgtk-3-0 to be 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.2 but libgtk-3-0 requires libgtk-3-common to be 3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1 a diference of .1 versions. So, since libgtk-family can't be of different versions, apt-get gets an expectacular dependency error. So how to solve this? We use the hold package status:



echo "libgtk-3-bin hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo "libgtk-3-0 hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections


With this, you can upgrade normally until the dependency conflicts get resolved in the Ubuntu repositories.



Once you feel that you can allow upgrades, just run:



echo "libgtk-3-bin install" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo "libgtk-3-0 install" | sudo dpkg --set-selections


Another option is to force versions to being installed:



sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-0=3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1 libgtk-3-common=3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1 libgtk-3-0=3.6.0-0ubuntu3.1


This will tell apt-get to install everything using the same version number.


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