Installed LXQt on Ubuntu 14.04.1 but problem with unmet dependencies

[Hugh Parker]

I have Ubuntu 14.04.1 in a VirtualBox on Windows 7 laptop (Dell Vostro 1520)

I installed LXQt as instructed above and error was encountered at the end of the processing of the last sudo command ….

sudo apt-get install lxqt-metapackage lxqt-panel openbox

last few lines of terminal window showed following message….

Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/sddm_0.0.1~bzr535+201409221547~ubuntu14.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
hugh@UBUNTU-VM-DELL-W7:~$

So I did a reboot and was prompted with message “System program problem detected” and I clicked “Report problem”

When the login screen appeared, I clicked on the small Ubuntu logo opposite username, then I selected the desktop environment from the list “LXQt Desktop.”

I was then prompted to select my preferred file manager so I clicked on list and navigated down to openbox lubuntu and clicked ok, but no desktop has been displayed.

Was this selection correct?

Any idea what might be the problem? I am fairly new to Linux and only know a limited amount of knowledge, but I can usually get by with the help of google.

I was able to shut down the VM and restart and select Ubuntu desktop from the list and was able to use Ubuntu desktop as before except keep getting error message as before so click ok to remove message.

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when i logged back into Ubuntu, I ran sudo apt-get update and then upgrade, got following resopnse….

hugh@UBUNTU-VM-DELL-W7:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
sddm-theme-maldives : Depends: sddm but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
hugh@UBUNTU-VM-DELL-W7:~$

Any idea how to resolve these dependencies?

[Hugh Parker]

someone else suggested I run following to help resolve this issue...

sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" install sddm

I did this today and after reboot I was able to select LXQt desktop and managed to get it working. I don't know the details of why it worked as I am pretty new to linux, but I'm happy with the result.