Ubuntu – Trying to install steam

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I've been trying to install steam all day and I've been encountering all kinds of problems, but I'd like a little bit of help with this specific one:

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:
 steam:i386 : Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages

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Best Answer

Conclusion

More details see the next section

  • It is important to consider the output of the commands like apt-cache package_name.
  • sudo dpkg -i --force-all deb_file is a great help when you need to force the installation of a package by any means
  • The reinstallation of a package sometimes can solve dependency problems that actually are no dependency problems.

Details

I can not determine what the exact cause of the problem was. The following output appears to have been the main problem. You can see that the installation candidate for libcgmanager0:i386 is version 0.24-0ubuntu7.5. But libcgmanager0 and libcgmanager0:i386 have to be exactly the same version.

% apt-cache policy libcgmanager0:i386 libcgmanager0
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libudev1 : Depends: libcgmanager0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
libcgmanager0:i386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.24-0ubuntu7.5
  Version table:
     0.39-2ubuntu2~ubuntu14.04.1 0
        100 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports/main i386 Packages
     0.24-0ubuntu7.5 0
        500 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
     0.24-0ubuntu7.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages
     0.24-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
libcgmanager0:
  Installed: 0.39-2ubuntu2~ubuntu14.04.1
  Candidate: 0.39-2ubuntu2~ubuntu14.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.39-2ubuntu2~ubuntu14.04.1 0
        100 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.24-0ubuntu7.5 0
        500 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
     0.24-0ubuntu7.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
     0.24-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

For this reason we downloaded the package and manually forced the installation.

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cgmanager/libcgmanager0_0.39-2ubuntu2~ubuntu14.04.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libcgmanager0_0.39-2ubunt‌​u2~ubuntu14.04.1_i386.deb

Whether the next steps were still necessary, I can not say exactly. I simply just list them ...

apt-get download libc6:i386
sudo dpkg -i --force-all libc6*i386.deb

And now we had

(Reading database ... 196730 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack libc6_2.19-0ubuntu6.6_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libc6:i386 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) over (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
dpkg: libc6:i386: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
 libc6:i386 depends on libgcc1.

Setting up libc6:i386 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
ig0killahr79@ig0killahr79-Inspiron-3537:~$ apt-get download libc6:i386; sudo dpkg -i --force-all libc6*i386.deb
(Reading database ... 196730 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack libc6_2.19-0ubuntu6.6_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libc6:i386 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) over (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
dpkg: libc6:i386: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
 libc6:i386 depends on libgcc1.

Setting up libc6:i386 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...

Solved with

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgcc1

After a test with

sudo apt-get install -f

we got this

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

Looks great and finally

% sudo apt-get install steam:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
steam:i386 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

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