unmet dependencies libsdl2-2.0-0

Question

the following problem is driving me crazy - I literally can't use apt right now because this issue appears whenever I try to update/upgrade/install a package (apt --fix-broken install ect. is not working either)

environment is arm64 ubuntu 64bit on my raspberry

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libavdevice58 : Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.12+dfsg1) but 2.0.10+5rpi is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I tried to find the package which is causing this issue / removing related packages but also this is not working

sudo apt-get remove libavdevice58
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libavdevice-dev : Depends: libavdevice58 (= 7:4.3.1-4ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

or

sudo apt-get remove libavdevice-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libavdevice58 : Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.12+dfsg1) but 2.0.10+5rpi is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I know that this issue is caused by packages I installed manually for emulation station but I don't know how to fix this issue. I tried to boot into recovery mode but until today I didn't figure out how to do this on the raspberry.

Let me know if any of you knows this issue or if there is a common way to fix it. If not I will most likely reinstall the OS.

BR Lukas

Bortmen86 · Answer 1 · 2022-05-25T20:05:24.790

I know this an old post, but this seemed to work for me. After attempting to install RetroPie in Ubuntu 22.04 on rpi4b, I ran into the same problems.I couldn't upgrade anything in terminal because of the, libavdevice58, libsdl2-2.0-0, and libsdl2-dev packages. I went into Synaptic Package Manager and marked libavdevice58 to be reinstalled, then marked both libsdl2-2.0-0 and libsdl2-dev to be upgraded. After a reboot the process went through for me and emulationstation seems to boot. Haven't tested anything further yet and hope this helps. Note: You can remove the said packages with, "sudo apt-get remove package_name". Start with libsdl2-dev.

unmet dependencies libsdl2-2.0-0

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