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How to tell what packages are broken as tiring to install glances and synaptic can,t fix this..

Start with: Then: Make sure you read the prompts and not remove anything you don't need to remove.

@Adrian

As you can see from below not much happened after running your commands. Thanks for your time anyways..


antix# dpkg --configure -a
antix# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

If I try an install glances after the running the above commands still the same error.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
glances : Depends: python3-psutil (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
antix#

If i try to install python3-psutl

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python3-psutil : Depends: python3 (< 3.6) but 3.6.6-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have glances install on my main desktop an everything runs just fine. Trying to install it on my T430 I just get the above everything is the same on both computers

https://github.com/nicolargo/glances I would do a pip install but their is no pip in the repository..

what I generally do is keep drilling down until I find the offending package. In this case
and note what depends won't be installed (pretty sure a depend since the python3-psutil in the repo meets the version requirement).

and so on and so forth.

For what its worth, I didn't get any package conflict here with just our stable repos, which possibly means a package from test repo or some third party is conflicting.

Ah, OK I understand now, it's not a broken package per se in your system the problem is in the repo. Maybe python3-psutil is < 2.0 You might ask packagers to re-package the program you want to install. Post a request in packaging request forum since it might need backporting.

Sorry to waste you time. Thanks

I installed python-pip ,python-setuptools , python-wheel.


pip install glances
Collecting glances
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages ... 1.1.tar.gz
Collecting psutil>=2.0.0 (from glances)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages ... 4.6.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: glances, psutil
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for glances ... done
Stored in directory: /home/koo/.cache/pip/wheels/25/1e/90/5c14b840f7ba3c72f3bb78c8c8d47f96b5bd32e8e7773867fa
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for psutil ... done
Stored in directory: /home/koo/.cache/pip/wheels/0a/61/aa/a6f8545fc2a5d4402e303832ed2ea02b046396049bc5f34008
Successfully built glances psutil
Installing collected packages: psutil, glances
Successfully installed glances-2.11.1 psutil-5.4.6

After installing with pip now all I get is
koo@antix:~➤ glances
zsh: command not found: glances

Your main problem seems to be that you have python3 from debian sid installed, but were trying to install glances from a different repo.
Did you update python and then disable the sid repo?

@timkq4cq

Yes you are right I found python 3.6.6.1 which is an unstable but can't even remove it as I still have broken packages. Too many versions and too many repository's just because I like to use i3 and not your normal run of the mill desktops, I suppose I pay the price. I have no idea how this happened maybe it came down with i3 I bloody know. But if I can't have i3 running on AntiX, antix is the wrong system for me. Thanks everyone for your help anyways

i3 works fine on antiX using default stable repos. Post your repo list (inxi -r)