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I have some big problems with my packages in my Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial. In the last few days I've changed my sources.list a lot and I've added some bunches of PPAs. Now I'm lost and don't know what to do.

I think I'm an intermediate Linux user. I started to use Debian 2 or 3 years ago, but I have problems everyday. In some months I had to format my machine more than 3 times due to problems with packages, drivers and multi-architecture.

This problem started when I tried to install VLC media player. They showed me that I have dependencies with libgles1-mesa and the system can't solve by itself. Then it asked me to try apt-get -f install to force the installation of dependencies, but my system can't solve this again.

After a lot of changes and attempts, I couldn't solve my problem, so here is some information about my status. I hope someone can help me to fix this.

I'm sorry about this, but my system is in Brazilian Portuguese. [Edit: the below is partially translated.]

uname -a

Linux Max-Notebook 4.8.0-45-generic #48~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 24 12:46:56 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

sudo apt-get install vlc

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libgl1-mesa-glx : Depends: libglapi-mesa (= 17.0.1+git20170319+17.0.07adc57f-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial) but 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 is to be installed
 libglapi-mesa : Breaks: libglapi-mesa:i386 (!= 11.2.0-1ubuntu2) mas 17.0.1+git20170319+17.0.07adc57f-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial está para ser instalado
 libglapi-mesa:i386 : Quebra: libglapi-mesa (!= 17.0.1+git20170319+17.0.07adc57f-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial) mas 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 está para ser instalado
 libgles2-mesa : Depende: libglapi-mesa (= 17.0.1+git20170319+17.0.07adc57f-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial) mas 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 está para ser instalado
 vlc : Depende: vlc-nox (= 2.2.2-5ubuntu0.16.04.1) but will not be installed
       Depende: libgles1-mesa (>= 7.8.1) mas não será instalado ou
                libgles1
       Depende: libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.10) mas não será instalado
       Depende: libva-drm1 (>= 1.1.0) mas não será instalado
       Depende: libva-x11-1 (>= 1.0.3) mas não será instalado
       Depende: libvlccore8 (>= 2.2.0) mas não será instalado
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.2.2-5ubuntu0.16.04.1) mas não será instalado
       Recomenda: vlc-plugin-samba (= 2.2.2-5ubuntu0.16.04.1) mas não será instalado
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

sudo apt-get -f install

Lendo listas de pacotes... Pronto
Construindo árvore de dependências       
Lendo informação de estado... Pronto
Correcting dependencies... failed.
Os pacotes a seguir têm dependências desencontradas:
 libgl1-mesa-glx : Depende: libglapi-mesa (= 17.0.1+git20170319+17.0.07adc57f-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial) mas 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 está instalado
 libglapi-mesa : Quebra: libglapi-mesa:i386 (!= 11.2.0-1ubuntu2) mas 17.0.1+git20170319+17.0.07adc57f-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial está instalado
 libglapi-mesa:i386 : Quebra: libglapi-mesa (!= 17.0.1+git20170319+17.0.07adc57f-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial) mas 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 está instalado
 libgles2-mesa : Depende: libglapi-mesa (= 17.0.1+git20170319+17.0.07adc57f-0ubuntu0ricotz~xenial) mas 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 está instalado
E: Erro, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve gerou falhas, isto pode ser causado por pacotes mantidos (hold).
E: Impossível corrigir dependências

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-security main universe restricted
deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main universe restricted
deb http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main universe restricted

If you need any information just ask me.

I can't format my notebook because I'll have a lot of problems again to install and configure Android Studio, Java, Netbeans, Vagrant, Composer, Git, VirtualBox, Astah, and a lot of other softwares.

Thanks guys!

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I solved my problem but i dont know exactly how, then i type "history" in my terminal, i'll paste here and try to explain what i did.

 1524  sudo apt-get clean
 1525  sudo apt-get autoclean
 1526  sudo apt-get -f install
 1527  sudo dpkg --configure -a
 1528  sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
 1529  sudo apt-get -i Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade
 1530  sudo apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade
 1531  sudo apt-get remove --dry-run libglapi-mesa 
 1532  sudo apt-get remove --dry-run libgl1-mesa-glx
 1533  sudo apt-get remove --dry-run libgl1-mesa-glx -f
 1534  sudo apt-get remove --dry-run libglapi-mesa 
 1535  sudo apt-get remove --dry-run libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa
 1536  sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
 1537  sudo apt-get autoremove --purge package-name
 1538  sudo apt-get autoremove --purge libglapi-mesa 
 1539  cd /etc/apt
 1540  cat sources.list.bkp 
 1541  sudo pluma sources.list.bkp 
 1542  sudo pluma sources.list
 1543  sudo apt-get -f install
 1544  sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
 1545  sudo apt-get purge libglapi-mesa 
 1546  sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
 1547  sudo apt-get install vlc
 1548  sudo apt-get update
 1549  cd ~
 1550  mkdir ppa-purge && cd ppa-purge && wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/ppa-purge/ppa-purge_0.2.8+bzr56_all.deb && wget http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.6.6-1ubuntu1_i386.deb && sudo dpkg -i ./*.deb
 1551  sudo ppa-purge ppa:a/ppa
 1552  sudo ppa-purge ppa:me-davidsansome/ppa
 1553  sudo apt-get autoremove --purge clementine
 1554  sudo apt-get install vlc
 1555  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager
 1556  mkdir y-ppa-manager && cd y-ppa-manager && wget https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/y-ppa-manager/+files/launchpad-getkeys_0.3.2-1~webupd8~oneiric_all.deb && wget https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/y-ppa-manager/+files/y-ppa-manager_0.0.8.6-1~webupd8~precise_all.deb && wget https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/y-ppa-manager/+files/yad_0.17.1.1-1~webupd8~precise_amd64.deb && dpkg -i ./*.deb
 1557  sudo apt-get -f install
 1558  cd ~
 1559  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager
 1560  sudo apt-get update
 1561  sudo apt-get install y-ppa-manager
 1562  sudo apt-get -f install
 1563  sudo pluma /etc/apt/sources.list
 1564  sudo apt-get -f install
 1565  sudo synaptic
 1566  sudo reboot now
 1567  sudo apt-get install vlc
 1568  sudo apt autoremove
 1569  sudo apt-get install vlc

From line 1524~1538 i got only errors, i was trying to remove the problematic libs, then on lines 1539~1542 i've restaured my backup of sources.list because i saw in some place that i'll need the sources where i downloaded my packages. After that i tried to install ppa-purge to remove my PPAs but my APT was broken and i cant did that. I've downloaded PPA-Purge with WGET and tried to install with DPKG -i but i got more problems, my system said that i need to solve dependencies first. I tried to use PPA-Purge on lines 1551 and 1552 but it didnt worked because the instalation didnt finish. At line 1564 when i enter "apt-get -f install" it returned for me a giant list of libs and packages that will be uninstaled, about to 1,2GB then i type "N" to cancel the action because it was listed a lot of programs there, like libreoffice, compiz, apt, etc.. Then when I open Synaptic i was able to uninstall only the broken packages(libglapi-mesa, libgles1-mesa-glx..) After this i've rebooted my PC and tried to install VLC, it goes normally and my problem was solved, i dont know how, but it was done. After that I got another problem but i find the solution here: Strange artifacts along window borders after waking computer from sleep mode

Well guys, i want to say thanks to all of you that spent a time to be here trying to help me. Thanks a lot, after more than 3 weeks i solved my problem and i'll try to help others with the same problem. Sorry about my English and I hope u guys understand and learned things here. Good Luck for us, cya :)

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