After a recent upgrade it seems that I have removed network-manager-gnome, or did upgrade -f did it, so I do not see the network indicator in the panel. Network is active, both wireless and local.
I have tried:
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nm-applet, it's not installed. If I try to install it by installing network-manager-gnome I receive:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: network-manager-gnome : Depends: default-dbus-session-bus but it is not installable or dbus-session-bus but it is not installable Recommends: mobile-broadband-provider-info but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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Restarting the service
sudo service network-manager restart
just restarts it to make it work again, but again, no indicator.
Edit (Requested Outputs):
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Output of
cat nm-applet
:[Desktop Entry] Name=Network Comment=Manage your network connections Icon=nm-device-wireless Exec=nm-applet Terminal=false Type=Application NoDisplay=true NotShowIn=KDE;GNOME; X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=NetworkManager X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=nm-applet X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=nm-applet
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locate nm-applet
indicates:gaj@gaj-Lenovo-Z51-70:~$ locate nm-applet /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop /usr/share/app-install/desktop/network-manager-gnome:nm-applet.desktop /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/nm-applet.mo /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/nm-applet.mo /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/nm-applet.mo /usr/share/locale-langpack/hr/LC_MESSAGES/nm-applet.mo
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If I try to install network-manager-gnome using using
aptitude
i get:The following NEW packages will be installed: network-manager-gnome{b} 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 910 kB of archives. After unpacking 6049 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: network-manager-gnome : Depends: default-dbus-session-bus which is a virtual package and is not provided by any available package. or dbus-session-bus which is a virtual package and is not provided by any available package. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) network-manager-gnome [Not Installed] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
Outputs:
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 1 Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 1 Investigating (0) network-manager-gnome [ amd64 ] < none -> 1.2.4-0ubuntu2~ubuntu16.04.1~ppa1 > ( gnome ) Broken network-manager-gnome:amd64 Depends on default-dbus-session-bus [ amd64 ] < none > ( none ) Broken network-manager-gnome:amd64 Depends on dbus-session-bus [ amd64 ] < none > ( none ) 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: network-manager-gnome : Depends: default-dbus-session-bus but it is not installable or dbus-session-bus but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Best Answer
your locate command indicates that you are missing a great deal of content from the
usr/share/nm-applet/
directory. the content you are missing can be found in the network-manager-gnome_1.1.93-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb package which can be found here. If you are unable to install it by normal means dpkg has a big hammer for situations such as this and issuing the commandsudo dpkg -i --force-downgrade network-manager-gnome_1.1.93-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
If you have a current backup For an even bigger hammer you can use the --force-depends or --force-all switches
I'm not kidding about the backup. More information is available regarding dpkg force options with the command:
dpkg --force-help
which I have replicated below for your convenienceIt appears that you obtained the version you have installed from ppa:vascofalves/gnome-backports I recommend you remove this PPA from your sources.list as it's clearly stated in the description that
Sources:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/network-manager-gnome/download
How can PPAs be removed?
https://launchpad.net/~vascofalves/+archive/ubuntu/gnome-backports