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I am running Ubuntu 16.04 using crouton on my chromebook. Whenever I install a new chroot and load up linux for the first time sometimes installing things works just fine, but every time I load in after I always get unmet dependency errors like so: 

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
account-plugin-facebook: Depends : libaccount-plugin-generic-ouath but it is not going to be installed or ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts but it is not going to be installed

and

libxft: Predepends: multiarch-support but it is not going to be installed

except there is around 30 or 40 of these. I have tried

sudo apt-get -f install

and 

sudo dpkg configure -a

and

sudo apt-get remove {insert dependency here}

but every time it just says the same thing and lists off the dependencies. What can I do?

George Udosen
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Nic G.
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What I do when I encounter that issue is to uninstall the package that is causing the issue, then try installing it again. In your case, the problem seems to be account-plugin-facebook, so try

sudo apt purge account-plugin-facebook

If that fails, try dpkg:

sudo dpkg --remove account-plugin-facebook

and then try installing again with

sudo apt install account-plugin-facebook
user8292439
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