This error occurs when I install the apache2 & php5 around the time that libapace2-mod-php5 is installed:
root@ubuntuServerASC:/home/asc# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cron : PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2)
Depends: adduser but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-11) but it is not going to be installed
init-system-helpers : Depends: perl-base (>= 5.20.1-3) but it is not going to be installed
libapache2-mod-php5 : Depends: libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: apache2-api-20120211
Depends: apache2 (>= 2.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: php5-common (= 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.17) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ucf but it is not going to be installed
Depends: tzdata but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: php5-cli but it is not going to be installed
libpam-modules : PreDepends: debconf (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
debconf-2.0
PreDepends: libpam-modules-bin (= 1.1.8-3.2ubuntu2)
Recommends: update-motd but it is not going to be installed
libpam0g : Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
debconf-2.0
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
I tried use apt-cache to resolve the dependency but it didn't work.
root@ubuntuServerASC:/home/asc# apt-cache depends libapache2-mod-php5
libapache2-mod-php5
Depends: libbz2-1.0
Depends: libc6
Depends: libdb5.3
Depends: libpcre3
Depends: libssl1.0.0
Depends: libxml2
Depends: zlib1g
Depends: <apache2-api-20120211>
apache2-bin
Depends: apache2
Depends: mime-support
Depends: php5-common
Depends: libmagic1
Depends: ucf
Depends: tzdata
Conflicts: <libapache2-mod-php4>
Conflicts: libapache2-mod-php5filter
Recommends: php5-cli
Suggests: php-pear
I installed all of the required packages.
I'm running ubuntu 16 LTS server.
