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I am trying to install libpcre3-dev in ubuntu 14.10 and sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev gives me the following error :

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libpcre3-dev :
Depends: libpcre3 (= 1:8.31-2ubuntu2) but 1:8.35-3ubuntu1 is to be
installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Then when i try sudo-apt-get install libpcre3 its says that i already have the latest version of libpcre3. So how can i install version 1:8.31 of libpcre3 so that i can solve the dependency issue?

andrew.46
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I had this problem and update the list package (/etc/apt/sources.list) file and add the following line to it:

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu wily-security main

After that run:

apt-get update

And now you can install libpcre3 8.35

But please be sure that after installing the package change the (/etc/apt/sources.list) to the first situation and remove the line you added. Because it may produce inconsistency to install other packages in future.

Mohamad Kouhi Moghadam
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