Broken dependencies due to libjackd

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So I proudly updated my Linux distro for the first time and thereafter got a problem. I'm running Ubuntu Unity 2D (usually) 12.04 (since today) on a 64 bit computer.

Indeed, the first upgrade -- I made the upgrade through the Update Manager -- was okay (even if I was surprised by the amount of i386 packages that had to be installed).

Then, I re-enabled the repositories that had been disabled because of the upgrade and updated my system. I was told to perform a 'Partial Upgrade', that I did, but was once again surprised by the amount of i386 packages installed and also by the fact that LMMS (https://launchpad.net/lmms) was being removed; Wine, among others, was also being updated and that's probably the reason because LMMS depends on certain versions of Wine (I just know this, for the rest I'm a total noob). Anyway, this leaded me to the broken dependencies gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 and libasound2-plugins:i386. Synaptic also constantly tries to install libjack-jackd2-0:i386, but each time it gets an error. I don't know if all this is Wine or LMMS related, but it maybe can help...

I was told to perform: 'sudo apt-get -f install' by Synaptic but it apparently failed:

    ~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libxml++2.6-2 librtaudio4 libx264-116 libfluidsynth1 lmms-common librtmidi1
  wine-gecko1.4 wine-gecko1.4:i386 libffado2 stk libconfig++8 libstk0c2a
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libjack-jackd2-0:i386
Suggested packages:
  jackd2:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libjack-jackd2-0:i386
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/202 kB of archives.
After this operation, 493 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 249517 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libjack-jackd2-0:i386 (from .../libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 './usr/share/doc/libjack-jackd2-0/buildinfo.gz' is different from the same file on the system
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Must I remove those broken packages via Synaptic? I would like to understand that problem as I can't install anything new from the Software Center. Thanks everyone!

That's a bug in the libjack-jackd2-0 package, version 1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1 (which isn't a version ever published in Ubuntu, must have come from somewhere else). It claims to be Multi-Arch: same, but that file differs between architectures.

You can almost certainly safely delete /usr/share/doc/libjack-jackd2-0/buildinfo.gz, after which APT should be happy:

sudo rm /usr/share/doc/libjack-jackd2-0/buildinfo.gz

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jackd2/+bug/999665
Are PPA's safe to add to my system and what are some "red flags" to watch out for?

I ended up just renaming

/usr/share/doc/libjack-jackd2-0/

/usr/share/doc/libjack-jackd2-0.old

and then ran

sudo apt-get -f install

Came up happy and no more broken packages messages.

Broken dependencies due to libjackd

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