I recently really screwed up my Kali VM. There was a package I installed by accident ("fontconfig"). I didn't know what it was or why it took so long to install. I tried to purge it and realized that when the purge started many many packages were being removed. I quickly canceled the purge, and did a snapshot. I tried to reboot to make sure my system was still stable, but now only boots to a black screen with a blinking cursor.
I rolled the snapshot back and am able to get back to my state right after I did the purge. I knew some configuration or vital package was removed from the mistake I made.
Looking at the term.log I see the last entries. When checking these packages were removed for sure.
Log started: 2021-04-26 21:50:52
(Reading database ... ^M(Reading database ... 5%^M(Reading database ... 10%^M(Reading database ... 15%^M(Reading database ... 20%^M(Reading database ... 25%^M(Reading database ... 30%^M(Reading database ... 35%^M(Reading database ... 40%
Removing apt-listchanges (3.22) ...^M
Removing kali-desktop-xfce (2020.1.13) ...^M
Removing atril (1.24.0-1) ...^M
Removing binwalk (2.2.0+dfsg1-1) ...^M
Removing bless (0.6.0-7) ...^M
Removing cherrytree (0.39.4-0) ...^M
Removing chromium-driver (81.0.4044.92-1) ...^M
Removing kali-desktop-core (2020.2.21) ...^M
Removing chromium (81.0.4044.92-1) ...^M
Removing commix (3.0-20191111-0kali1) ...^M
Removing crackmapexec (5.0.2~dev-0kali2) ...^M
Removing creddump7 (0.1+git20190429-0kali1) ...^M
Removing crowbar (4.1-0kali1) ...^M
Removing legion (0.3.6b-0kali2) ...^M
Removing cutycapt (0.0~svn10-0.1+b2) ...^M
Removing faraday (3.10.2-0kali1) ...^M
^X^X^X
I tried fixing the problem by trying to reinstall / fix broken packages in apt. But I keep running into unmet dependencies.
I also tried the whole clear out /var/lib/dpkg/status, but this does nothing to fix the problem.
Commands I have tried:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -f
sudo apt --fix-borken install
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt auto-remove
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt --fix-broken install
apt update && apt install -f
sudo apt update && apt install -f
Running most of the commands above ends up with me trying to run fix-broken, which ends up with the output you see at the end of this post.
It seems like much was removed. Is the only way to fix this by manually installing all of this? How do I go about trying to install all this? When I try to sudo apt install the first package (libpangoft2-1.0-0) I get unmet dependencies as well.
What can I do at this point?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gir1.2-pango-1.0 : Depends: libpangoft2-1.0-0 (= 1.44.7-4) but 1.46.2-3 is to be installed
guymager : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed
keditbookmarks : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed
kio : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
kolourpaint : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.11.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.11.0~) but it is not going to be installed
kwayland-integration : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libdbusmenu-qt5-2 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5auth5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5bookmarks5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5completion5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5configgui5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5configwidgets5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5crash5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5globalaccel-bin : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5globalaccel5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5globalaccelprivate5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5guiaddons5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5iconthemes-bin : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5iconthemes5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.2) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5idletime5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5itemviews5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5jobwidgets5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5kdelibs4support5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5kdelibs4support5-bin : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5kiofilewidgets5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5kiogui5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5kiowidgets5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5notifications5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5parts5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5sane5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5solid5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5sonnetui5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5textwidgets5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5wallet-bin : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5waylandclient5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.2) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5widgetsaddons5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5windowsystem5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libkf5xmlgui5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~) but it is not going to be installed
libpangocairo-1.0-0 : Depends: libpangoft2-1.0-0 (= 1.44.7-4) but 1.46.2-3 is to be installed
libpangoft2-1.0-0 : Depends: libpango-1.0-0 (= 1.46.2-3) but 1.44.7-4 is to be installed
Breaks: libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 (!= 1.46.2-3) but 1.44.7-4 is to be installed
libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 : Breaks: libpangoft2-1.0-0 (!= 1.44.7-4) but 1.46.2-3 is to be installed
libpangoxft-1.0-0 : Depends: libpangoft2-1.0-0 (= 1.44.7-4) but 1.46.2-3 is to be installed
libphonon4qt5-4 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed
libpolkit-qt5-1-1 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.1.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
libqscintilla2-qt5-15 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.6.0~beta) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.6.0~beta) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5charts5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5designer5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5help5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5multimedia5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5multimedia5-plugins : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5multimediagsttools5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5multimediawidgets5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5opengl5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5printsupport5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5quick5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5svg5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5waylandclient5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5waylandcompositor5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5webkit5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.9.0~beta) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.9.0~beta) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5widgets5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5) but it is not going to be installed
libqt5x11extras5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
libqtermwidget5-0 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed
ophcrack : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed
phonon4qt5-backend-vlc : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed
python3-pyqt5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.2) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.2) but it is not going to be installed
python3-pyqt5.qtopengl : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
qt5-gtk-platformtheme : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.10.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.10.0) but it is not going to be installed
qt5-gtk2-platformtheme : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.10.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.10.0) but it is not going to be installed
qt5-style-plugin-cleanlooks : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.2.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.2.0) but it is not going to be installed
qt5-style-plugin-motif : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.3.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.3.0) but it is not going to be installed
qt5-style-plugin-plastique : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.2.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.2.0) but it is not going to be installed
qterminal : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed
qtwayland5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed
sqlitebrowser : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.3.0) but it is not going to be installed or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.3.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
