Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 64-bit
I tried to install Lazarus (1.4.4) by downloading the .deb files and using sudo dpkg -i. However I think it tried to install them in the wrong order and I now get "unmet dependencies" errors whenever I use apt-get. Even trying to remove the offending package doesn't work as apt-get claims it's not installed.
\> sudo apt-get remove lazarus
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package lazarus is not installed, so not removed
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies. lazarus:i386 : Depends: libgtk2.0-dev:i386 (>= 2.6.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: fpc:i386 (>= 2.6.4) but it is not installable or
fp-compiler:i386 (>= 2.6.4) ...
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
(same results with sudo apt-get autoremove, and dpkg --purge --force-depends lazarus also claims that lazarus is not installed)
When I try sudo apt-get -f install, I'm prompted to do some very scary stuff including removing 304 packages, some of which look rather important (e.g. ubuntu-desktop), and some of which are apparently essential to my system operation (python-minimal, python2.7minimal). That seems like massive overkill to just resolve dependencies for one half-installed package.
Can anyone recommend the safest way to resolve this? Thanks in advance.
