Ok, I think I got it figured out after some time away from the computer. My use of -n was causing the error. I thought I would check for problems before making changes permanent. Since nothing was being installed, the package manager couldn't use functions from the dependencies either hence causing the error. Oops, sorry for the idiocy.
- Error in dconf-0.40.0: @tag gio-querymodules definition not f... Daniel Lemke
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