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Sorry to bring this up after ~3 years, but I'm stuck on the suggested solution:

I have a similar issue, but when I'm running this:

sudo apt install switchboard-plug-gcc-sound

I get this:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 switchboard-plug-gcc-sound : Depends: unity-control-center but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

The above iterates for all the "unmet dependencies".

Any clue about what I might be missing here, would be much appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

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  • Try running sudo dpkg –configure -a If you have Synaptic Packaage Manager, you can also use that to fix broken packages. – Paul Apr 8 '20 at 2:35
  • Thank you for your time. I still get the same message: The following packages have unmet dependencies: switchboard-plug-gcc-sound : Depends: unity-control-center but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. – Lopofsky Apr 9 '20 at 15:13
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I have also faced the same issue. I managed to get the packages installed by using aptitude instead of apt-get or apt.

aptitude also detects the dependency issues, but offers a few more automated solutions. The second solution it offered was to remove libglib2.0-bin, install libglib2.0-bin:i386, and upgrade libglib2.0-0, libglib2.0-0:i386, and libglib2.0-dev. This worked and I got my sound settings back.

However there may be consequences I'm not aware of, so please exercise caution.

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  • I'll check it asap and mark it as solved if your suggestion works, thank you for this insight. – Lopofsky Apr 26 '20 at 13:08
  • My god thank you so much! This fixed it! At the cmd I've refused the 1st solution (mostly summed up to "leave things as they were") & accepted the 2nd one and it worked! – Lopofsky Apr 29 '20 at 16:36
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After the update, I had exactly the same problem.

These packages are removed: ibus ibus-table switchboard-plug-gcc-color switchboard-plug-gcc-sound switchboard-plug-gcc-wacom unity-control-center

These packages have been updated: ibus-gtk (1.5.11-1ubuntu2.3) to 1.5.11-1ubuntu2.4 ibus-gtk3 (1.5.11-1ubuntu2.3) to 1.5.11-1ubuntu2.4 libibus-1.0-5 (1.5.11-1ubuntu2.3) to 1.5.11-1ubuntu2.4

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  • @Lopofsky 1) delete gir1.2-ibus-1.0_1.5.11-1ubuntu2.4_amd64 2) download and install gir1.2-ibus-1.0_1.5.11-1ubuntu2_amd64 3) download and install ibus_1.5.11-1ubuntu2_amd64 4) download and install ibus-table_1.9.21-2_all.deb 5) install from the repository switchboard-plug-gcc-sound 6) PROFIT – m-matveev Apr 9 '20 at 15:09
  • Thank you for the insights! So where can i find the repos for the steps 2 & 3? I mean through apt list --installed | grep fir1.2-ibus, I do find that you are correct about step 1, but the "apt-cache search ibus | grep "^ibus-1.5.*"" doesn't return any results for step 3 | "apt-cache search ibus | grep "^ibus-table_1.*" the same for step 4 and so on. – Lopofsky Apr 9 '20 at 15:24

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