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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Installation problem in Ubuntu Post 302789073 by hanson44 on Wednesday 3rd of April 2013 03:43:17 AM
Old 04-03-2013
It says some directory and some user already exist, so exiting. I would try getting rid of the directory and the user, try apt-get remove, apt-get install again.

I confess I have never used a linux desktop program. Smilie I'm just a command line user. I tried installing software-center here on my ubuntu 12.10 system. apt-get install software-center. It went on a long time. Gosh, it installed a lot of stuff. Anyway, it went to completion. So it "oughta" work there. Here's the tail end, with one line I wrapped by hand to fit better on this forum:
Code:
Setting up software-properties-common (0.92.9) ...
Setting up python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets (0.45+bzr861-0ubuntu9.1.2) ...
Setting up libcanberra-gtk3-module:i386 (0.29-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up python3-aptdaemon.pkcompat (0.45+bzr861-0ubuntu9.1.2) ...
Setting up sessioninstaller (0.20+bzr131-0ubuntu2) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/gst-install to provide 
  /usr/bin/gstreamer-codec-install (gstreamer-codec-install) in auto mode
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.2.71.1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up software-properties-gtk (0.92.9) ...
Setting up humanity-icon-theme (0.6.1) ...
Setting up gnome-icon-theme (3.6.0-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up software-center (5.4.1.4) ...
Updating software catalog...this may take a moment.
INFO:softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache:aptcache.open()
Software catalog update was successful.
Setting up ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk (1:0.190.6) ...
Setting up update-notifier (0.126) ...
Setting up update-manager (1:0.174.4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

Not sure what else to suggest, except try deleting or changing whatever it's complaining about. Normally, apt-get is very good, as you probably know. But I guess every now and then it can get confused.

But I can see how it might be nice to have a GUI front end. But if it just won't go, you might try aptitude. It's a kind of text-based interface for browsing through packages and installing them. I don't use it. I normally just look around the debian package lists to find something I might want.
 

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APT-CUDF-GET(8) 						    DOSE Tools							   APT-CUDF-GET(8)

NAME
apt-cudf-get - wrapper for calling apt-get with external solvers SYNOPSIS
apt-cudf-get [arguments] DESCRIPTION
apt-cudf-get is a wrapper that allows to invoke apt-get with external solvers while ignoring apt's pinning. All options are passed on to apt-get. Normally, apt uses so-called pinning to select a candidate version of a package in case there are several versions available. This also holds when calling apt-get with external solvers. However, when it is not possible to find a solution under this constraint, it may be useful to relax pinning and to allow the external solver to choose among all available versions of packages in order to satisfy dependencies, not only those that are selected by the pinning. This is precisely what apt-cudf-get does. Note that, when using an external solver, the proposed solution may contain any available version of the packages that are given as arguments to install on the command line without specifying a version qualifier. For example apt-cudf-get --solver aspcud install ocaml may propose to install any available version of ocaml, while apt-cudf-get --solver aspcud install ocaml=4.01.0 will only propose to install ocaml in version 4.01.0 AUTHOR
Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo BUGS
Not all types of arguements to apt are correctly treated by this wrapper, in particular not the +pkg and -pkg shorthands for installation and removal requests. SEE ALSO
apt-get(8), apt-cudf(1), apt-cudf.conf(5), update-cudf-solvers(8), README.cudf-solvers <file:///usr/share/doc/apt-cudf/README.cudf-solvers>, README.Debian <file:///usr/share/doc/apt-cudf/README.Debian> dose3 3.0.2 2012-06-25 APT-CUDF-GET(8)
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