Can't install 'ubuntu-desktop'

Oops, didn't read one bit. Here's some log files associated with this bug

The culprit is the xgl/compiz repository. It is unofficial and causes some problems like this.
Try to remove and reinstall the problematic packages.
Also I think this bug can be rejected as these are unofficial repositories, can someone confirm?

Thanks for your bug report. Your problem is most likely caused by the packages installed from the external repositories. Unfortunately, Ubuntu is not responsible for maintaining it and cannot ensure safe upgrade process with third-party software installed.

Removing said repository and running:
  aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade
should help, but it will most likely cause (or propose) removing the third-party software. The only thing I can suggest it installing it again after the upgrade, since the ubuntu-desktop package is a meta-package needed only during the upgrades.

Thanks again for your cooperation.

Someone marked "my" bug 63301 a duplicate of this one. However, I am not certain that I am using other repo's but the official ones, meaning that the solution provided by Mateusz is not helping me...

I have attached the logs created by the dist-upgrade

Someone is me ;)
Are you sure that you have never used the xgl/compiz repository?
Can you paste the output of "apt-cache policy libgl1-mesa-dri" please.

Hi, me again.

Even though this 'bug' is related to repos which aren't maintained or hosted etc by Ubuntu, it seems to have affect a few people. I suggest that this be re-opened and a work-around built in to update-manager (if this is possible, I don't know) that would change the /etc/apt/sources.list so that it would work with the update.

Not sure if it would work or not, but seeing as this has affected a few people it seems to me that something might need to be done.

I might have used the xgl/compiz repo's once - but the packages are uninstalled (my graphics card is way to old for these packages).

apt-cache policy libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-dri:
  Installed: 6.5.1-0ubuntu10
  Candidate: 6.5.1-0ubuntu10
  Version table:
 *** 6.5.1-0ubuntu10 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     6.4.1-0ubuntu8 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages

Maybe xgl/compiz packages are uninstalled, but not all packages from this repo are uninstalled.
The version of libgl1-mesa-dri installed on your computer (6.5.1-0ubuntu10) comes from the xgl/compiz repo, the official one has 6.4.1-0ubuntu8.
So your bug is actually a duplicate of this one.

OK, so that was the reason!

I've now run "sudo aptitude remove libgl1-mesa-dri" which downgraded to 6.4.1.-0ubuntu8.

This seemed to do trick!

Thank you!

I am having the same error, and I didn't remove nvidia-glx (which I believe is supported by ubuntu) but I did remove the compiz repos from sources.list

I ran "sudo aptitude update" as well as "sudo aptitude dist-upgrade" it didn't look like it removed any files (I had already removed my xgl/compiz and later my xgl/beryl before trying to get edgy.

I have attatched my sources.list as well as so you may confirm this, as well as my apt, and main logs in a tar file.

From my results thusfar I can derive that I successfully undid everything that was changed. However, please see my attatched log files, and tell me what I have done incorrectly, or, if this is truly a problem with Ubuntu, then consider this my bug report.

Thanks,

Megaqwerty

I had this problem as well. For me, it was caused by conflicting packages. I'm uploading my relevant log file.

I fixed it|, I merely had to uninstall the libgl1-mesa-dri package (I used synaptic to do so.) Now I can upgrade to Edgy :)

Uninstalling the libgl1-mesa-dri package using Synaptic did the trick for me as well. I was successful in upgrading the Edgy.

Thanks,

I noticed, marked it as a dup and fixed it.

Thanks a lot,

Edmund

On Oct 20 2006, Frainbart wrote:

>*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 58424 ***
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>Uninstalling the libgl1-mesa-dri package using Synaptic did the trick
>for me as well. I was successful in upgrading the Edgy.
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