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https://www.ubuntu.com/support/community-support Closing this bug report, since the issue isn't likely a bug which can be fixed. If your further investigation indicates otherwise, please file a new bug report with a description of how the bug can be reproduced. ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762256 Title: system settings not installed Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: gnome-control-center is not installed this is what I get: dave@dave-K55A:~$ sudo apt install gnome-control-center [sudo] password for dave: 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 to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-control-center : Depends: colord (>= 0.1.30) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. dave@dave-K55A:~$ sudo apt install colord 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 to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: colord : Depends: libsane1 (>= 1.0.24) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. dave@dave-K55A:~$ sudo apt install libsane1 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 to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libsane1 : Depends: libsane-common (= 1.0.27-1~experimental2ubuntu2.1) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. dave@dave-K55A:~$ sudo apt install libsane-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libsane-common is already the newest version (1.0.27-artful1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-control-center (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-37.42-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-37-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Sun Apr 8 18:17:44 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-25 (713 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-19 (171 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762256/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

