Dependency hell

[Head_on_a_Stick]

L_V makes a good point about 32-bit packages, the graphics stuff looks like it's for wine. Check:

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apt policy wine32:i386

Can you remove that package?

[L_V]

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silas@debian:~$ sudo apt install -fs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

To summarize, your initial "Dependency hell" issue has been already solved. I don't see any hell anywhere.
You just need some time to learn that a "non Debian" package is a package your will not find here:
https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

[silas2]

Sure, I couldn't get the app to work anyway.

[silas2]

Sorry, can i just ask one more time, but would it be better to install everything like chrome etc which doesn't come in packages.org in my home directory? (this is a desktop dev pc not server)
Especially taking on board Head_on_a_Stick's caution that the stack is compromised as soon as non-native packages turn up.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Head_on_a_Stick's caution that the stack is compromised as soon as non-native packages turn up.

I didn't notice that they were 32-bit packages, have you tried removing wine32?

Debian Stable should not be combined with other releases. If you're trying to install software that isn't available in the current Debian Stable release, it's not a good idea to add repositories for other Debian releases. The problems might not happen right away, but the next time you install updates.

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian ... nkenDebian

[stevepusser]

Since the packages in the Ubuntu Trusty repos are going to be older than the ones in Debian Stretch and Buster, I would say it's a pretty sure bet that they didn't get into the OP's system, barring any Ubuntu shenanigans with epochs in the versions...

[Danielsan]

I seem to have got into a fix, when I try to run
sudo gdebi cerebro_0.3.0_amd64.deb
I get :

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dpkg: error processing package gconf2 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gconf2-common
 gconf-service
 libgconf-2-4:amd64
 gconf2

+ a massive list of " warning: files list file for package ...." lines, although I can cd into var/lib/dpkg/info and see a big list of packages...?

I can't seem to remove this gconf2 - it doesn't seem a massively fundamental app, but every time I try to remove I get more config problems.

It is available as appimage, why do you need to install it?

https://github.com/KELiON/cerebro/relea ... 4.AppImage