:~$ sudo apt-get install compiz # compiz-gnome 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: compiz: Depends: compiz-decorator but it is not installable E: Broken packages :~$ sudo apt-get install compiz-decorator Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package compiz-decorator is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package compiz-decorator has no installation candidate :~$ sudo dpkg -l compiz* libdecoration* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============================-==============================-============================================================================ pn compiz (no description available) pn compiz-core (no description available) pn compiz-gnome (no description available) rc compiz-gtk 0.3.6-1ubuntu13 OpenGL window and compositing manager - Gtk window decorator rc compiz-plugins 0.3.6-1ubuntu13 OpenGL window and compositing manager - plugins ii libdecoration0 0.3.6-1ubuntu13 Compiz window decoration library