# Having trouble installing libgdk-pixbuf on Linux Mint 22.2

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/having-trouble-installing-libgdk-pixbuf-on-linux-mint-22-2/375295>\
**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [December 28, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/having-trouble-installing-libgdk-pixbuf-on-linux-mint-22-2/375295 "2025-12-28T17:19:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/having-trouble-installing-libgdk-pixbuf-on-linux-mint-22-2/375295/1 "2025-12-28T17:19:52Z")

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E: The repository ‘cdrom://Linux Mint 22.2 _Zara_ - Release amd64 20250828 noble Release’ does not have a Release file.  
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.  
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.  
E: Read error - read (5: Input/output error)  
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems  
E: The package cache file is corrupted  
mint@mint:~$ wget [http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gdk-pixbuf-xlib/libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0\_2.40.2-2\_i386.deb](http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gdk-pixbuf-xlib/libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0_2.40.2-2_i386.deb)  
–2025-12-28 16:43:32-- [http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gdk-pixbuf-xlib/libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0\_2.40.2-2\_i386.deb](http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gdk-pixbuf-xlib/libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0_2.40.2-2_i386.deb)  
Resolving [ftp.cz.debian.org](http://ftp.cz.debian.org) … 78.128.211.127, 2001:718:1:1f:50:56ff:feee:127  
Connecting to [ftp.cz.debian.org](http://ftp.cz.debian.org) |78.128.211.127|:80… connected.  
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK  
Length: 47960 (47K) [application/vnd.debian.binary-package]  
Saving to: ‘libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0\_2.40.2-2\_i386.deb’

libgdk-pixbuf-xlib- 100%[===================\>] 46.84K 199KB/s in 0.2s

2025-12-28 16:43:33 (199 KB/s) - ‘libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0\_2.40.2-2\_i386.deb’ saved [47960/47960]

mint@mint:~$ sudo dpkg -i libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0\_2.40.2-2\_i386.deb~  
dpkg: error: cannot access archive ‘libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0\_2.40.2-2\_i386.deb~’: No such file or directory  
mint@mint:~$ sudo apt install -i libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0  
E: Command line option ‘i’ [from -i] is not understood in combination with the other options.  
mint@mint:~$ sudo apt install ./balena-etcher\_2.1.4\_amd64.deb  
Reading package lists… Done  
Building dependency tree… Done  
Reading state information… Done  
Note, selecting ‘balena-etcher’ instead of ‘./balena-etcher\_2.1.4\_amd64.deb’  
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.  
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:  
balena-etcher : Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 but it is not installable  
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.  
mint@mint:~$ sudo apt install libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0  
Reading package lists… Done  
Building dependency tree… Done  
Reading state information… Done  
libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 is already the newest version (2.42.10+dfsg-3ubuntu3.2).  
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 223 not upgraded.  
mint@mint:~$ sudo apt install libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev  
Reading package lists… Done  
Building dependency tree… Done  
Reading state information… Done  
libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev is already the newest version (2.42.10+dfsg-3ubuntu3.2).  
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 223 not upgraded.  
mint@mint:~$ sudo apt install ./balena-etcher\_2.1.4\_amd64.deb  
Reading package lists… Done  
Building dependency tree… Done  
Reading state information… Done  
Note, selecting ‘balena-etcher’ instead of ‘./balena-etcher\_2.1.4\_amd64.deb’  
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.  
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:  
balena-etcher : Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 but it is not installable  
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.  
mint@mint:~$
