Dependency error installing build-essential

Question

In recently istalled Ubuntu 18.04.4 on SSD hard disk and Intel Core i5-6500 I've try to install build-essential with this error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  build-essential: Depends: dpkg-dev (> = 1.17.11) but will not install

If I try to install dpkg-dev, also several dependencies are shown. I've try to solve dependecies everyway (update, upgrade, clean, autoclean, autoremove) and reinstall with apt, apt-get, -y, ... even uncomenting the bionic-updates section in /etc/apt/sources.list as is said in Ubuntu 18.04, fresh install, cannot install build-essential!, but the same error persists.

Any idea? Thanks

To your question above, please add the complete output of sudo apt update and of apt-cache policy dpkg-dev and of sudo apt install dpkg-dev — user535733, Apr 04 '20 at 16:16
Try using aptitude to install the package. Aptitude will try to resolve dependencies for you. Please read here — Raffa, Apr 04 '20 at 17:14
Does this answer your question? How do I restore the default repositories? — N0rbert, Apr 04 '20 at 17:15

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '20 at 11:43

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I solved adding bionic-updates and bionic-security lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list

So, my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like:

deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse

answered Sep 22 '20 at 11:43

AlbHam

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worked for me. got me around the " libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.35-0ubuntu3) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.1 is to be installed" problem with cmake. – pierrely Feb 16 '23 at 06:41

Dependency error installing build-essential

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