LMDE 64-bit, mintInstall 7.5.2.
$ apt install picasa
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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:
picasa : Depends: ia32-libs but it is not installable
Depends: lib32asound2 but it is not installable
Depends: ia32-libs-gtk but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
If you try to click on picasa in mintInstall, nothing happens in the GUI, only in the terminal there's an error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py", line 920, in show_package_if_apt_cached
self.show_package(pkg, tree)
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py", line 53, in wrapper
res = func(*arg)
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py", line 1724, in show_package
pkg.mark_install()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/package.py", line 1109, in mark_install
fixer.resolve(True)
SystemError: E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Even worse, after that error any other package can't be clicked! And again, nothing happens in the GUI, only in terminal there's another error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py", line 914, in show_selected
self.acthread.start()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 737, in start
raise RuntimeError("threads can only be started once")
RuntimeError: threads can only be started once
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py", line 920, in show_package_if_apt_cached
self.show_package(pkg, tree)
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py", line 53, in wrapper
res = func(*arg)
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintinstall.py", line 1724, in show_package
pkg.mark_install()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/package.py", line 1109, in mark_install
fixer.resolve(True)
SystemError: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
This should be corrected. The software manager should correctly process the error and show some message to the user, indicating that the package cannot be installed. And it should not prevent the installation of any other package after that.