libq-dev fails to install

Question

When I try to install libpq-dev It fails to install and gives me the folowing error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libpq-dev: Depends: libpq5 (= 8.4.8-0ubuntu0.10.04) but 8.4.12-0ubuntu10.04 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

I tried updating libq5 but not luck it says it's at newest version. I'm using backtrack distro which is practically ubuntu.

This may be considered a duplicate of How do I resolve unmet dependencies? or off-topic. Questions that are about BackTrack and not about Ubuntu are off-topic. You can search meta for more information on this. If that question doesn't enable you to solve this probem, you should instead ask this someplace BackTrack is supported, like the BackTrack forums or Unix.SE. — Eliah Kagan, Mar 24 '14 at 21:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '14 at 20:58

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Try this: sudo apt-get -f install. It fixes broken dependencies.

answered Mar 24 '14 at 20:58

Roby Sottini

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If that doesn't work, downgrade libpq5 by running sudo apt-get install libpq5=8.4.8-0ubuntu0.10.04. – saiarcot895 Mar 24 '14 at 21:00

libq-dev fails to install

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