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
Best Answer
Conclusion
More details see the next section
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 meansDetails
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 version0.24-0ubuntu7.5
. Butlibcgmanager0
andlibcgmanager0:i386
have to be exactly the same version.For this reason we downloaded the package and manually forced the installation.
Whether the next steps were still necessary, I can not say exactly. I simply just list them ...
And now we had
Solved with
After a test with
we got this
Looks great and finally