This is still broken in May. If gnome-desktop-environment is not the correct meta-package to use, which package/task etc can be used to install the gnome environment?
I also note a forum post from another user: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770987 $ sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment 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. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: gnome-keyring-manager (>= 2.20.0) but it is not installable E: Broken packages -- [hardy] gnome-desktop-environment is broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190950 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs