[SID - Unstable] Broken packages

[innerdemon]

Hello, i am currently still facing this issue also.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Hit:1 http://mirror.aktkn.sg/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
25 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... 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:
gnustep-base-runtime : Depends: gnustep-base-common (= 1.29.0-4) but 1.28.1+really1.28.0-5 is to be installed
libgnustep-base1.29 : Depends: gnustep-base-common (= 1.29.0-4) but 1.28.1+really1.28.0-5 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

How many more days should i wait ?

[4D696B65]

Hello, i am currently still facing this issue also.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Hit:1 http://mirror.aktkn.sg/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
25 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... 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:
gnustep-base-runtime : Depends: gnustep-base-common (= 1.29.0-4) but 1.28.1+really1.28.0-5 is to be installed
libgnustep-base1.29 : Depends: gnustep-base-common (= 1.29.0-4) but 1.28.1+really1.28.0-5 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

How many more days should i wait ?

Ask at kali forum
https://forums.kali.org/

[battlangl6767]

WFIW on this old thread, I ran into this too and had IPv6 turned off. I had seen it was looking to an IPv6 address for the manual install gnustep so I turned it back on. It worked, this was after much frustration.

[Trihexagonal]

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:
gnustep-base-runtime : Depends: gnustep-base-common (= 1.29.0-4) but 1.28.1+really1.28.0-5 is to be installed
libgnustep-base1.29 : Depends: gnustep-base-common (= 1.29.0-4) but 1.28.1+really1.28.0-5 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

How many more days should i wait ?

None.

I had never heard of an "impossible situation" till about a year or two ago using Kali. That's because they don't exist.

You have to take the advise about missing dependencies it gives you and work your way back through what got you to this point till you can see the source of the problem.

Allow me to demonstrate'

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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:
 libwacom9 : Depends: libwacom-common (= 2.0.0-2) but 1.12-1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

┌──(jitte㉿itachi)-[~]
└─$ sudo apt-get remove libwacom2 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  fonts-roboto-slab
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libinput-bin libinput10 libwacom-bin libwacom-common libwacom9
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libwacom2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libwacom9
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libinput-bin libinput10 libwacom-bin libwacom-common
4 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 44 not upgraded.
Need to get 244 kB of archives.
After this operation, 30.7 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

*snip*

┌──(jitte㉿itachi)-[~]
└─$ sudo apt-get update           
Hit:1 http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
                                                                                         
┌──(jitte㉿itachi)-[~]
└─$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  fonts-roboto-slab
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages have been kept back:
  default-mysql-server gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
  php-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apparmor binutils binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu cpp-10 cpp-11 exploitdb
  g++-10 g++-11 gcc-10 gcc-10-base gcc-11 gcc-11-base lib32gcc-s1 lib32stdc++6
  libapparmor1 libasan6 libatomic1 libbinutils libcc1-0 libctf-nobfd0 libctf0
  libgcc-10-dev libgcc-11-dev libgcc-s1 libgfortran5 libgomp1 libitm1 liblsan0
  libobjc-10-dev libobjc-11-dev libobjc4 libquadmath0 libstdc++-10-dev libstdc++-11-dev
  libstdc++6 libtiff5 libtsan0 libubsan1 python3-dataclasses-json
40 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 125 MB of archives.
After this operation, 322 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

*snip*

┌──(jitte㉿itachi)-[~]
└─$ cat /etc/os-release                                                              1 ⨯
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2022.1"
VERSION_ID="2022.1"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"
                                                                                         
┌──(jitte㉿itachi)-[~]
└─$

[friendlysalmon88]

Have you tried running the command bellow encapsulated in the code tags?

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sudo apt --fix-broken install 

You should run the above command without a package tacked onto the end of it. It wil,l then go through the packages that are installed on your system and check for broken packages. After it's done so if its found any broken or partially installed packages it'll list them and ask you if you want to remove the packages.