I recently tried to install code:blocks using the 64 bit binary from this link, and it was apparently the worst thing in the world I could have done to my machine. I ended up not able to install the program using that package and it ended up not able to install any of the deb packages in the tar file at all because dependencies weren't being met. Now my system won't install software using the apt-get command because it sends this error due to codeblocks dependency errors.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
codeblocks-contrib : Depends: libwxsmithlib0 (= 13.12-1) but 13.12-3 is installed
Depends: codeblocks (= 13.12-1) but 13.12-3 is installed
Recommends: valgrind but it is not installed
Recommends: cppcheck but it is not installed
Recommends: cscope but it is not installed
Recommends: cccc but it is not installed
codeblocks-dbg : Depends: codeblocks-contrib (= 13.12-3) but 13.12-1 is installed
codeblocks-dev : Depends: libcodeblocks0 (= 13.12-1) but 13.12-3 is installed
Depends: codeblocks-headers (= 13.12-1) but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
When I try to use sudo apt-get install -f I get the following output
$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
codeblocks-contrib codeblocks-dev
Recommended packages:
valgrind
The following packages will be upgraded:
codeblocks-contrib codeblocks-dev
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
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(Reading database ... 244536 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../codeblocks-contrib_13.12-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking codeblocks-contrib (13.12-3) over (13.12-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/codeblocks-contrib_13.12-3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cb_wximagepanel.pc', which is also in package codeblocks-wxcontrib-dev 13.12-1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to unpack .../codeblocks-dev_13.12-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking codeblocks-dev (13.12-3) over (13.12-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/codeblocks-dev_13.12-3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/include/codeblocks/wxContribItems/wxImagePanel/include/wx/wxImagePanel.h', which is also in package codeblocks-wxcontrib-headers 13.12-1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/codeblocks-contrib_13.12-3_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/codeblocks-dev_13.12-3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
From the errors, it seems to me like the problem is that apt-get install -f is trying to use a different version than what the deb files installed, so it isn't resolving the dependency problem or something like that. Does this seem like it's the source of my problem with the apt-get command working? If not, what else could the problem be? I've tried using apt-get clean and autoclean, and others.
