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[BUG] GUI installed dependicies problem

See original GitHub issue

Describe the bug

./install-gui.sh

apt-get is /usr/bin/apt-get
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libxss1 is already the newest version (1:1.2.3-1).
libxss1 set to manually installed.
nodejs is already the newest version (15.14.0-deb-1nodesource1).
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:
 nodejs : Conflicts: npm
 npm : Depends: node-gyp (>= 3.6.2~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

To Reproduce Should install

Expected behavior Installation should work

Desktop (please complete the following information): Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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davemerwincommented, May 10, 2021

I’ve had the same issue. Ubuntu 20. I’ve tried multiple methods to fix this and nothing seems to work. Thus far I’ve tried reinstalling Node and NPM as well as downgrading libxssl. Which is not a good idea, but I was just trying to get the error to go away.

Any suggestions? How can I help? Here’s the complete error:

apt-get is /usr/bin/apt-get
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libxss1 is already the newest version (1:1.2.3-1).
libxss1 set to manually installed.
nodejs is already the newest version (16.1.0-deb-1nodesource1).
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:
 nodejs : Conflicts: npm
 npm : Depends: node-gyp (>= 3.6.2~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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VivaLaRobocommented, Jul 17, 2021

Using NVM and commenting out that line did not work for me. Says it can’t find NPM now

I’ve reinstalled Node, NPM, NVM. Removed NVM completely. Still no luck. Very frustrating because this was working before I updated Node with NVM

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