Resolved apt conflict with javascript-common

[TobiasP]

Hi,
I wanted to upgrade packages but suddenly I only get:

psa : Conflicts: javascript-common but 11 is to be installed

apt remove javascript-common does nothing since javascript-common is not installed
I have no idea what package wants javascript-common... certainly nothing I have installed...
installing javascript-common would remove plesk packages so I did not go ahead with that.

server is deb 9.13 with 18.0.32 Update #1

any ideas?
cheer,
Tobias

 

[TobiasP]

never mind
apt-get --purge remove javascript-common
sudo dpkg --configure -a

also had to apt remove glances

this seemed to fixed it in the end

 

[johnrdorazio]

I am following the instructions to dist-upgrade from Ubuntu 16 to Ubuntu 18 from here, but I'm getting this same error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 psa : Conflicts: javascript-common but 11 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

I have tried:

apt-get --purge remove javascript-common

which does nothing:

The package "javascript-common" not installed so not removed

Also:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

does nothing.
I have tried all kinds of combinations of apt clean, apt autoclean, apt autoremove, apt-get install -f, to no avail.
If I try to install javascript-common , apt wants to uninstall a bunch of plesk packages!

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libpam-plesk plesk-aps-php-runtime plesk-backup-utilities plesk-completion plesk-core plesk-core-utilities plesk-dovecot
  plesk-dovecot-imap-driver plesk-dovecot-pigeonhole plesk-git-http plesk-l10n plesk-mail-pc-driver plesk-modsecurity-configurator
  plesk-repair-kit plesk-roundcube plesk-service-node-utilities plesk-task-manager plesk-web-hosting plesk-web-socket pp-sitebuilder
  psa psa-firewall psa-horde psa-imp psa-ingo psa-kronolith psa-libxml-proxy psa-locale-base-en-us psa-logrotate
  psa-mail-driver-common psa-mailman-configurator psa-mnemo psa-passwd psa-php-configurator psa-phpmyadmin psa-proftpd psa-turba
  psa-updates psa-vhost wpb-core wpb-headers
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  javascript-common

I obviously don't allow that to happen.
How can I fix this?

 

[johnrdorazio]

I went ahead and did the apt-get dist-upgrade, and it seems to have been successful and I seem to no longer receive this error.

 

[anli]

Same for me here while updating Debian 9 to Debian 10

 

[B3 Support]

I have the same problem - after a migration from Ubuntu 18 to 20

apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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:
 psa : Conflicts: javascript-common but 11 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

apt-get --purge remove javascript-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'javascript-common' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
root@vmd41977:~# apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
root@vmd41977:~# apt install javascript-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libapache2-mod-passenger-plesk libpam-plesk passenger passenger-dev plesk-awstats-configurator plesk-backup-utilities plesk-completion plesk-config-troubleshooter plesk-core plesk-core-utilities plesk-dovecot plesk-dovecot-imap-driver
  plesk-dovecot-pigeonhole plesk-git-http plesk-l10n plesk-mail-pc-driver plesk-modsecurity-configurator plesk-repair-kit plesk-resctrl plesk-roundcube plesk-service-node-utilities plesk-task-manager plesk-web-hosting plesk-web-socket psa
  psa-drweb-configurator psa-fileserver psa-firewall psa-libxml-proxy psa-locale-base-en-us psa-logrotate psa-mail-driver-common psa-php-configurator psa-phpmyadmin psa-proftpd psa-spamassassin psa-updates psa-vhost psa-watchdog
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  javascript-common
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 39 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,066 B of archives.
After this operation, 437 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

Is there a solution for this so that the updates can be installed on the system again?

 

[B3 Support]

I could probably solve the problem now. The cause was old packages, which were probably not removed during the upgrade.

:~# apt-cache rdepends --installed javascript-common
javascript-common
Reverse Depends:
  libjs-jquery
  psa
  libjs-jquery-mousewheel
  libjs-jquery-mousewheel
  libjs-jquery-fancybox
  libjs-jquery-easing

I have therefore removed the "libjs-jquery" package

:~# apt remove libjs-jquery
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  fonts-glyphicons-halflings libjs-bootstrap
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  imagemagick-6-doc imagemagick-doc libjs-jquery libjs-jquery-easing libjs-jquery-fancybox libjs-jquery-mousewheel
0 upgraapt install image    ded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
After this operation, 60.4 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 207295 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing imagemagick-doc (8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.7) ...
Removing imagemagick-6-doc (8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.7) ...
Removing libjs-jquery-fancybox (12-1.1) ...
Removing libjs-jquery-mousewheel (12-1) ...
Removing libjs-jquery-easing (12-1.1) ...
Removing libjs-jquery (3.3.1~dfsg-3) ...

After that, there was only one dependency for the package in use:

:~# apt-cache rdepends --installed javascript-common
javascript-common
Reverse Depends:
  psa

After that, all the problems were "gone".