I believe I may have some dependencies installed in the wrong version for my system, because I keep getting errors whenever I try to use apt-get. For instance:
sudo apt-get install minicom
results in these errors:
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc-dev-bin : Depends: libc6 (< 2.12) but 2.13-38+deb7u8 is to be installed
libc6 : Depends: libc-bin (= 2.13-38+deb7u8) but 2.11.2-10 is to be installed
Breaks: locales (< 2.13)
libc6-dev : Depends: libc-dev-bin (= 2.13-38+deb7u8) but 2.11.2-10 is to be installed
Breaks: gcc-4.4 (< 4.4.6-4) but 4.4.5-8 is to be installed
locales : Depends: glibc-2.11-1
ntp : Depends: libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
So I try to fix it with sudo apt-get -f install. But I get almost identical errors:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc-dev-bin : Depends: libc6 (< 2.12) but 2.13-38+deb7u8 is installed
libc6 : Depends: libc-bin (= 2.13-38+deb7u8) but 2.11.2-10 is installed
Breaks: locales (< 2.13)
libc6-dev : Depends: libc-dev-bin (= 2.13-38+deb7u8) but 2.11.2-10 is installed
Breaks: gcc-4.4 (< 4.4.6-4) but 4.4.5-8 is installed
locales : Depends: glibc-2.11-1
ntp : Depends: libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not installable
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
Except this time, I get the two extra errors down at the bottom. I'm really at a loss here for how to solve this problem.
Here is what I've tried so far:
Firstly, links to related questions:
Unable to install most major packages; Unmet dependencies and cannot be fixed
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Fix dependency when apt-get -f install fails
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How do I resolve unmet dependencies after adding a PPA?
apt-get stopped working because of dependancy issue - libegl1-mesa
None of these questions or their answers helped me although I tried them all. The final link in that list seemed to most promising considering it has almost identical error messages, but it didn't solve my issue either.
Here's a quick summary of what I've tried:
- Removing files with `sudo apt-get remove [package]. This results in the exact same output as when I try to install anything.
- Looking at the
/var/log/apt/term.logfile for broken things to remove. This didn't really help because again, I can't remove anything. sudo apt-get cleanthensudo apt-get update- clean returns nothing, and the update hits all my sources without problem. But it doesn't fix anything.sudo apt-get dist-upgrade- returns similar issues to installingapt-get install --reinstall [package]on things that look broken - returns similar issues to installingdpkg --remove [package]- I've done this to a couple packages and it works, but as I'm not quite sure where the problem lies, this could just break things more.
/etc/apt/sources.list(and any file in/etc/apt/sources.list.d)? – fkraiem Feb 04 '16 at 17:13aptitude(sudo apt-get install aptitude) and use that instead ofapt-get. It's more aggressive in fixing issues thanapt-get, which means it can just resolve the problem and installminicom, but it can also remove some important packages. Be careful when you use it. – TheWanderer Feb 04 '16 at 20:36+deb7u8looks like Debian, not Ubuntu. – fkraiem Nov 27 '17 at 09:28