I’m trying to install Crossover on Peppermint 6 and I’m getting this error message “Cannot install libglu1-mesa:i386” I’ve tried versions 14.1.4-1, 14.6-1 & 15.0.0-1 and they all fail with the same error message, the strange thing is I’ve installed it successfully on another PC wth the exact same version of Peppermint without any issues.
I’ve searched the internet for this issue and although there are other reports of this no one seems to have a solution
Unfortunately that didn’t work in fact I tried those commands earlier from a Steam forum as it seems quite a few people are having this issue installing Steam and I don’t think it worled for those posters either
Those commands not meant to solve anything, just to print out the installed architectures.
On the other hand if you followed tips from elswhere, did you establish that you have the 32 bit architecture enabled and libraries installed to?
graeme@Linux1 ~ $ sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa:i386
[sudo] password for graeme:
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.
libglu1-mesa:i386 : Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 or
libgl1:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
graeme@Linux1 ~ $
graeme@Linux1 ~ $ sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
[sudo] password for graeme:
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.
libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 : Depends: libglapi-mesa:i386 (= 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.5)
Depends: libudev1:i386 but it is not going to be installed or
libudev0:i386 but it is not installable
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 (>= 7.2)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
graeme@Linux1 ~ $
Obviously the above only applies if you’re still on the default Peppermint 6 kernel (3.16) … if you’ve updated to the vivid LTS enablement stack you’ll need to swap all mentions of “utopic” in the above commands to “vivid” … but probably best to just stop on any errors and post them here, along with the output from:
graeme@Linux1 ~ $ sudo aptitude install -s libglu1-mesa:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc-4.8-base:i386{a} libcgmanager0:i386{a} libdrm-intel1:i386{a}
libdrm-nouveau2:i386{a} libdrm-radeon1:i386{a} libdrm2:i386{a}
libedit2:i386{a} libelf1:i386{a} libffi6:i386{a}
libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic:i386{a} libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic:i386{a}
libglapi-mesa-lts-utopic:i386{a} libglu1-mesa:i386 libllvm3.5:i386{a}
libnih-dbus1:i386{a} libnih1:i386{a} libpciaccess0:i386{a}
libstdc++6:i386{a} libtinfo5:i386{a} libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:i386{a}
libudev1:i386{a} libx11-xcb1:i386{a} libxcb-dri2-0:i386{a}
libxcb-dri3-0:i386{a} libxcb-glx0:i386{a} libxcb-present0:i386{a}
libxcb-sync1:i386{a} libxshmfence1:i386{a} libxxf86vm1:i386{a}
0 packages upgraded, 29 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.2 MB of archives. After unpacking 50.1 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Would download/install/remove packages.
graeme@Linux1 ~ $ sudo apt-get install libglapi-mesa-lts-utopic:i386 libudev1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386
[sudo] password for graeme:
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.
libudev1:i386 : Depends: libcgmanager0:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
graeme@Linux1 ~ $
Loading the dependencies for 32bit Steam sorted the problem, and I now have Crossover installed, but the thing is do we have a regression here because Crossover wasn’t the only application I was having a problem installing the other was Basic PAYE Tools downloaded from the HMRC website which did install but refused to open, both of these applications installed and ran on a previous installation of Peppermint 6 on 2 PC’s including this one using the same USB stick so has something changed ?
No it’s the way Ubuntu are packaging the differing kernels and graphics stacks for the 14.04 point release (14.04.2, 14.04.3, etc) … it would have worked in 14.04 and will again in16.04 … but when 16.04.1 comes around a few 32bit packages will require a little more work on 64bit.
Nothing we can do about it short of going back to the 14.04 kernel and graphics stack
so has something changed ?
No … you simply must have installed something on the other 2 PC’s that had already brought in those dependencies.
