Plymouth package broken... Can I safely remove it? Other solution to repare it?

Posted by Julien Gorenflot on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Julien Gorenflot
Published on 2012-04-09T19:42:58Z Indexed on 2012/04/09 23:48 UTC
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I have a broken package... So far nothing horrible. The problem is that it is Plymouth, and it seems that if I remove it, I will remove half of the packages of my system... So here is my question: if I actually remove, or even purge plymouth; will I at least have a terminal left after it to reinstall it? Or am I definitely doomed?

Just to illustrate what I say; here is the result of an

apt-get --reinstall install plymouth:

julien@julien-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install plymouth
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of plymouth is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 plymouth : Depends: libdrm-nouveau1 (>= 2.4.11-1ubuntu1~) but it is not installable
            Recommends: plymouth-themes-all but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

or an

apt-get -f install

(well basically it is the same)

julien@julien-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for julien: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... failed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 plymouth : Depends: libdrm-nouveau1 (>= 2.4.11-1ubuntu1~) but it is not installable
            Recommends: plymouth-themes-all but it is not installable
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
julien@julien-desktop:~$ 

Any idea would be very welcome...

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