How can I install both curl (depending on libcurl4) and mongodb (depending on libcurl3)?

Question

On Lubuntu 18.04, I have installed mongodb, by following https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/#install-mongodb-community-edition

sudo apt install -y mongodb-org mongodb-org-server libcurl3

and now want to install curl

$ sudo apt install curl
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distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
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The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 curl : Depends: libcurl4 (= 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I followed https://askubuntu.com/a/1051988/1471

you can use apt downgrade mechanism (thus, is not necessary to uninstall packages that depend of libcurl4).
apt install -y libcurl4=7.58.0-2ubuntu3
apt install -y curl

But then libcurl3 and mongodb were removed

$ sudo apt install -y libcurl4=7.58.0-2ubuntu3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  calibre-bin fonts-mathjax geoclue-2.0 iio-sensor-proxy libbrotli1 libchm1 libgeoclue-2-0 libjs-coffeescript libjs-mathjax libpodofo0.9.5 libqt5designer5 libqt5help5
  libqt5positioning5 libqt5sensors5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5test5 libqt5webchannel5 libqt5webkit5 libqt5xml5 libwoff1 mongodb-org-mongos mongodb-org-shell
  mongodb-org-tools python-apsw python-asn1crypto python-bs4 python-cffi-backend python-chardet python-cherrypy3 python-cryptography python-cssselect python-cssutils
  python-dateutil python-dbus python-dnspython python-enum34 python-feedparser python-html5-parser python-html5lib python-idna python-ipaddress python-libxml2 python-lxml
  python-markdown python-mechanize python-msgpack python-netifaces python-olefile python-openssl python-pil python-pygments python-pyparsing python-pyqt5 python-pyqt5.qtsvg
  python-pyqt5.qtwebkit python-regex python-repoze.lru python-routes python-simplejson python-sip python-six python-utidylib python-webencodings python-webob python-yaml
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libcurl3 mongodb-org mongodb-org-server
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcurl4
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 214 kB of archives.
After this operation, 61.6 MB disk space will be freed.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 libcurl4 amd64 7.58.0-2ubuntu3 [214 kB]
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(Reading database ... 235089 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mongodb-org (4.0.0) ...
Removing mongodb-org-server (4.0.0) ...
Removing libcurl3:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libcurl4:amd64.
(Reading database ... 235068 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libcurl4_7.58.0-2ubuntu3_amd64.deb ...
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Setting up libcurl4:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
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When I tried to install mongodb, then libcurl4 will be removed

$ sudo apt install -y mongodb-org mongodb-org-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  calibre-bin fonts-mathjax geoclue-2.0 iio-sensor-proxy libbrotli1 libchm1 libgeoclue-2-0 libjs-coffeescript libjs-mathjax libpodofo0.9.5 libqt5designer5 libqt5help5
  libqt5positioning5 libqt5sensors5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5test5 libqt5webchannel5 libqt5webkit5 libqt5xml5 libwoff1 python-apsw python-asn1crypto python-bs4
  python-cffi-backend python-chardet python-cherrypy3 python-cryptography python-cssselect python-cssutils python-dateutil python-dbus python-dnspython python-enum34
  python-feedparser python-html5-parser python-html5lib python-idna python-ipaddress python-libxml2 python-lxml python-markdown python-mechanize python-msgpack python-netifaces
  python-olefile python-openssl python-pil python-pygments python-pyparsing python-pyqt5 python-pyqt5.qtsvg python-pyqt5.qtwebkit python-regex python-repoze.lru python-routes
  python-simplejson python-sip python-six python-utidylib python-webencodings python-webob python-yaml
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libcurl3
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libcurl4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcurl3 mongodb-org mongodb-org-server
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 61.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 libcurl3 amd64 7.58.0-2ubuntu2 [214 kB]
Get:2 https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/4.0/multiverse amd64 mongodb-org-server amd64 4.0.0 [15.5 MB]
Get:3 https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/4.0/multiverse amd64 mongodb-org amd64 4.0.0 [3,518 B]                                                              
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(Reading database ... 235073 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libcurl4:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libcurl3:amd64.
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Preparing to unpack .../libcurl3_7.58.0-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libcurl3:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mongodb-org-server.
Preparing to unpack .../mongodb-org-server_4.0.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mongodb-org-server (4.0.0) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mongodb-org.
Preparing to unpack .../mongodb-org_4.0.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mongodb-org (4.0.0) ...
Setting up libcurl3:amd64 (7.58.0-2ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Setting up mongodb-org-server (4.0.0) ...
Setting up mongodb-org (4.0.0) ...

How shall I install both curl and mongodb

MongoDB 4.0.1 (just released today) adds support for Ubuntu 18.04. Can you try installing the new package: edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.0.list to include bionic instead of xenial and then apt-get update before installing mongodb-org-server. Attempting to install the 16.04 (xenial) packages on 18.04 (bionic) will result in a package conflict as per your output. — Stennie, Aug 06 '18 at 21:11
Thanks. What is the command to install mongodb? Is it still sudo apt install -y mongodb-org mongodb-org-server libcurl3? I need libcurl4 — Tim, Aug 06 '18 at 22:18
After you update to the bionic repo and apt-get update, you should be able to sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org to install the MongoDB server and command line tools (or sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org-server if you only need mongod). Don't include libcurl3 or other dependencies -- these should be handled by the package. — Stennie, Aug 06 '18 at 22:53

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '19 at 08:46

Another way to solve libraries dependencies issues is to use a docker container.

For example in that case, once docker-ce installed, you could run something like this :

docker run -d --name mongo-4.0.9  -p 127.0.0.1:27017:27017  --restart unless-stopped -v /var/lib/mongodb:/data/db mongo:4.0.9

In that way, you do not depend on your system dependencies.

Hope this helps.

How can I install both curl (depending on libcurl4) and mongodb (depending on libcurl3)?

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