I thought my printer issues was the only thing that was left to get corrected. After much much reading and many attempts at making corrections, I still continue to get "broken packages" and "bad sources" messages that I can not track down. I did figure out eventually that these problems appear to be linked to anything KDE related since none of my KDE applications such as kshisen, kpatience, kbreakout work anymore. When I try to reinstall any of those in the software manager I receive use apt-get install instead (which never works) and you have held broken packages messages.
When I try to install the entire KDE desktop, I get the same message.
I also found out that I'm apparently missing numerous python files or modules.
However, I could never install any of the python related applications or files individually.
Finally, when I tried to install python 3.5 this "wanted to work" but I decided to say "NO" to the hundreds of extra packages with 2.x GB of additional disk space ... because I figured that that might really mess things up for me. So now I know that I have printer, python, KDE packages, and sources issues. At this point I would almost have to start testing each and every installed app to see if other KDE and python related applications are broken as well. I just did another sudo apt-get update and looked at the entire string. There were no errors but I noticed that there are also still 8 "saucy" lines which show up in the update process. These here ...
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Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy InRelease
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy/main Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy/main i386 Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy/main Translation-en
Again, there are no errors during the update process and it terminates normally with ... Reading package lists ... Done.
The two sources.list files which were discussed earlier in this topic are clean. No references to "saucy" there.
YES, I know that a fresh installation will probably fix everything, but I prefer to learn by doing, and not by running away from a problem.
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