cinnamon not installing in ubuntu 13.04
I have been trying to install cinnamon in my ubuntu 13.04 and when i give
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
I get the error as:
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:
cinnamon : Depends: libgjs0-libmozjs185-1.0
Recommends: nemo but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: cinnamon-screensaver but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Solution 1:
This happened to me when I had already install Gnome onto ubuntu.
After install Aptitude and using it to install, it gave me the option to downgrade Gnome in order to install Cinnamon. If you do this Cinnamon should install.
$ sudo apt-get install aptitude
$ sudo aptitude install cinnamon
[sudo] password for <USER>:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cinnamon{b} gir1.2-muffin-3.0{a} libmuffin0{a} muffin-common{a}
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,255 kB of archives. After unpacking 9,065 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cinnamon : Depends: libgjs0-libmozjs185-1.0 which is a virtual package.
Depends: libmozjs185-1.0 (>= 1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg) but it is not going to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) cinnamon [Not Installed]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Install the following packages:
1) libmozjs185-1.0 [1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-4 (raring)]
Downgrade the following packages:
2) gjs [1.36.1+js17-0ubuntu1~raring0 (now, raring) -> 1.34.0-0ubuntu1 (raring)]
3) gnome-shell [3.8.1-0ubuntu1~raring1.2 (now, raring) -> 3.6.3.1-0ubuntu6 (raring)]
4) gnome-shell-common [3.8.1-0ubuntu1~raring1.2 (now, raring) -> 3.6.3.1-0ubuntu6 (raring)]
5) gnome-sushi [3.8.0-1~ubuntu13.04.2 (now, raring) -> 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 (raring)]
6) libgjs0c [1.36.1+js17-0ubuntu1~raring0 (now, raring) -> 1.34.0-0ubuntu1 (raring)]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
gjs gnome-shell gnome-shell-common gnome-sushi libgjs0c
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cinnamon gir1.2-muffin-3.0{a} libmozjs185-1.0{a} libmuffin0{a} muffin-common{a}
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 5 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,992 kB of archives. After unpacking 12.4 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
you will have to input the 'n' and two 'y's in order to install.