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Unmet dependency error while installing Cinnamon

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I added the required PPA for Cinnamon. Now when I run sudo apt-get install cinnamon, I get the unmet dependencies error.

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:

 cinnamon : Depends: gir1.2-muffin-3.0 but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libcogl5 (>= 1.7.4) but it is not going to be installed

            Depends: libmuffin0 (>= 1.0.2) but it is not going to be installed

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

Any suggestions?

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answered 1 Year ago iething · Accepted Answer

For me, these commands work fine to fix the error:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gnome3-team-gnome3-oneiric.list* merlwiz79-cinnamon-ppa-oneiric.list* ricotz-testing-oneiric.list*

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get purge gnome-desktop3-data

sudo apt-get install cinnamon