(start laughing)
I shot myself during an 'apt-get' and a large number of package were removed automatically.
Now I'm trying to recover. I'd become complacent and did not have a backup.
(end laughing)

Before my mis-adventure, I had callibra v2.7.5 installed and running on Mint-15 Cinnamon and I was very happy with the workings. Can someone help me sort out all of this and get a useful install.
[PS/ I'm really looking forward to 'calligra-author'...]

When I try to install 'calligra' from the Mint-15 repositories, 'synaptic' reports that the package is broken.
'apt-get install' reports that calligra depends on 'kexi' and 'krita' (>=1:2.6.3...).

If I unravel all of that and add-apt-repository according to any of several articles that I find online,
I still cannot get an install. Again, there is some issue with 'kexi' and 'krita'.

If I try to install either 'kexi' or 'krita' separately, I get complains about 'calligra-libs' (=1:2.7.5).
It I try 'calligra-libs separately, that won't work either.

Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

Can you please provide a list of the repositories you have added to your system?
The following command should provide that information:

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* /etc/apt/sources.list

Also, please make sure you have refreshed the repository data after adding a new repository. This can be done by running:

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apt-get update

bcooksley wrote:Can you please provide a list of the repositories you have added to your system?
The following command should provide that information:

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* /etc/apt/sources.list

Here is the 'cat' details that you requested:

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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ffmulticonverter/stable/ubuntu/ raring main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ffmulticonverter/stable/ubuntu/ raring main

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ingalex/super-boot-manager/ubuntu/ raring main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ingalex/super-boot-manager/ubuntu/ raring main

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu raring main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu raring main
# deb file:///usr/share/local-repository/ binary/

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/martin-ueding/stable/ubuntu/ raring main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/martin-ueding/stable/ubuntu/ raring main

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/n-muench/burg/ubuntu/ raring main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/n-muench/burg/ubuntu/ raring main

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ olivia main upstream import backport

deb http://ubuntu.securedservers.com/ raring main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ubuntu.securedservers.com/ raring-updates main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ raring partner

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sunab/ppa/ubuntu/ raring main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sunab/ppa/ubuntu/ raring main

********************
#=== support for the games repository
# deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/ raring-getdeb apps games
#=== support for Webmin repositories
deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository/ sarge contrib
deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository/ sarge contrib
#=== EOF -- /etc/apt/sources.list


bcooksley wrote:Also, please make sure you have refreshed the repository data after adding a new repository. This can be done by running:

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apt-get update

It seems that Mint-15 repositories have the 2.6.3 editions of calligra parts.
Other KDE apps like 'k3b', 'okular', 'kate', all installed and run just fine. I don't know enough about running
KDE parts on Mint-15 with Cinnamon to know if some other KDE something has dropped a spanner into my springenwerks.

Thanks, again,
~~~ 0;-Dan

Can you please provide the full output from apt when it complains of broken packages?

bcooksley wrote:Can you please provide the full output from apt when it complains of broken packages?

Trying to install 'calligra', there was a complaint about dependency on 'kexi' and 'krita'.
I tried to install 'krita' and was told there was dependency on 'calligra-libs'.
I installed 'calligra-libs' without any messages, and tried again to install 'krita'.
Next I was told of dependency on 'krita-data'.
Following is the log from my attempt to install 'krita-data'. Notice that 'calligra-libs' gets
removed if I complete the install processing.

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prompt$ sudo apt-get install krita-data

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
       calligrawords-data libreoffice libreoffice-filter-mobiledev
       libreoffice-report-builder-bin python-qrtools python-zbar python3-sip unoconv
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
[color=#FFBF00]The following packages will be REMOVED:
       calligra-data calligra-libs
[/color]The following NEW packages will be installed:
       krita-data
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 45.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.


This is typical of the sort of circular dependency troubles that I face.

Thanks, again,
~~~ 8d:-/ Dan

It is likely that the packaging structure has changed - which is why it wants to remove calligra-data and calligra-libs. Have you installed the "krita" package?