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And now after this morning's partial upgrade, I lost hplip and cannot
get it back. This is getting extremely annoying when I lose and cannot
reinstall packages that I use on a daily basis. The Software Center, at
the very least, should show a window explaining why the (re)installation
of affected packages fails rather than silently mocking you.

** Attachment added: "Video of the problem, using hplip as an example."
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/856042/+attachment/2446976/+files/SoftwareCenterFailedInstallation.webm

** Description changed:

  When I try to install the Labyrinth mind-mapping software (labyrinth
  0.4.1-0ubuntu5 as indicated in the Software Center), it appears to
  install at first, except the progress bar fills up very rapidly then
  goes back to being an "Install" button, with no visible explanation
  given of why the installation failed.
  
  Trying to install Labyrinth from apt-get in a terminal also fails,
  producing the following output:
  
  christopher@Xyz:~$ sudo apt-get install labyrinth
  Reading package lists... Done
- Building dependency tree       
+ 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:
-  labyrinth : Depends: python-numeric but it is not installable
+  labyrinth : Depends: python-numeric but it is not installable
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
+ 
+ Update: I am also getting this problem now with a few other more
+ important packages; please see comments below.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.23.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Sep 21 22:07:43 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110909)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-13 (8 days ago)

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Title:
  Installation of Labyrinth fails with no error message given

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When I try to install the Labyrinth mind-mapping software (labyrinth
  0.4.1-0ubuntu5 as indicated in the Software Center), it appears to
  install at first, except the progress bar fills up very rapidly then
  goes back to being an "Install" button, with no visible explanation
  given of why the installation failed.

  Trying to install Labyrinth from apt-get in a terminal also fails,
  producing the following output:

  christopher@Xyz:~$ sudo apt-get install labyrinth
  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:
   labyrinth : Depends: python-numeric but it is not installable
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

  Update: I am also getting this problem now with a few other more
  important packages; please see comments below.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.23.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Sep 21 22:07:43 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110909)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-13 (8 days ago)

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