How can I Resolve dpkg dependency?

A good try to ensure that you system is in a good shape and not has problems with aborted installation is to invoke

  dpkg --configure -a 

Ensure that the package list are updated and no problem is shown on:

 apt-get update

Optional you can remove all old data before the update with:

 find /var/lib/apt/lists -type f  |xargs rm -f >/dev/null \

Next step to resolve the problem is to remove the linux-server package for a while. This can be done because it has no real content and only introduce a dependency:

This package will always depend on the latest complete Linux kernel available for Server Equipment.

 dpkg --remove linux-server

After this step check that all current dependencies are installed:

apt-get install -f

If everything is o.k. you can now install linux-server again:

apt-get install linux-server

Postscriptum

linux-server is deprecated in 12.04. Also for server equipment the generic kernel is used. See apt-cache show linux-image-server

Package: linux-image-server...

Section: metapackages

....

Depends: linux-image-3.2.0-23-generic, linux-firmware

I am regularly having to clean out the /boot of my machines and usually being too full breaks the update - not sure what the ultimate solution is but the process I use seems to work:

Start off with a sudo su

Then go to /boot and do a ls -lSrh - the ones at the bottom are the biggest - rm enough of the older ones to clear up enough space.

Then try the following (as excerpted somewhat from above):

1. sudo apt-get remove linux-server
2. dpkg --configure -a
3. apt-get update
4. apt-get install -f
5. apt-get autoremove
6. dpkg --get-selections|grep 'linux-image*'|awk '{print $1}'|egrep -v "linux-image-$(uname -r)|linux-image-generic" |while read n;done
7. apt-get install linux-image-server linux-server
8. reboot

If anything fails, make a comment here and I will see what the issue might be.

I have seen this sort of thing work for the postgresql-9.1 package issues when using the pitti PPA as well.

One time when I ran the procedure I had a problem with grub. Doing a apt-get install --reinstall grub fixed it.

Thanks for the one liner goes to: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12180959&postcount=7

Good luck!