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when I try sudo apt install rhythmbox I get this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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 resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 rhythmbox : Depends: librhythmbox-core9 (= 3.3-1ubuntu7) but 3.3.0.0-1~wilyubuntu2 is to be installed
             Depends: rhythmbox-data (= 3.3-1ubuntu7) but 3.3.0.0-1~wilyubuntu2 is to be installed
             Depends: gir1.2-rb-3.0 (= 3.3-1ubuntu7) but 3.3.0.0-1~wilyubuntu2 is to be installed
             Recommends: rhythmbox-plugins but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: rhythmbox-plugin-zeitgeist but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I tried using ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox as a source as well but that responds with this:

E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/fossfreedom/rhythmbox/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

I tried making sure I didn't have any weird sources enabled and even deleted anything related to rhythmbox from /etc/apt/sources.list.d Regular install from Software doesn't work either.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Seth
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kartak
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It seems that the xenial package has been deleted: http://ppa.launchpad.net/fossfreedom/rhythmbox/ubuntu/dists/ http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/xenial/universe/proposed/rhythmbox

Babak Vandad
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The ppa versioned it's rhythmbox packages incorrectly in wily so they are are higher than the rhythmbox packages in xenial.

xenial - 3.3-1ubuntu7

ppa - 3.3.0.0-1~wilyubuntu2

3.3.0.0 is higher than 3.3, to fix just remove all Rb source packages, update sources & install Rb from Ubuntu repos

doug
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I had this same problem. I believe Doug is right about the Wily ppa. I purged rhythmbox and all rhythmbox data. I also purged the fossfreedom ppa. Then I found the Rhythmbox deb file for Rhythmbox 3.3-1 (the Xenial version rather than the Wily version) on pkgs.org and was able to install Rhythmbox that way. I can't find a ppa at the moment that has the Xenial version. Hopefully fossfreedom will update his ppa soon.

amadis
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