[Bug 1765646] Re: Ubuntu 16.04 - issue with bsdtar package installation

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

Thanks for the `sudo apt update` output. You seem to be missing some of
the xenial repos and that is likely causing these issues.

If you look again on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive notice that there's three lines for packages in xenial. When 16.04 originally shipped, it included version  3.1.2-11build1 . Since then, version  3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3  has been released but this is pushed to the xenial-security repo. So on my machine it looks like this:
$ apt policy bsdtar
bsdtar:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3
  Version table:
     3.2.1-2~ubuntu16.04.1 100
        100 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages
        100 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages
     3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3 500
        500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages
     3.1.2-11build1 500
        500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

Because I have multiple ones available. In fact, the package you
manually downloaded came from the xenial-security repo, but you should
have this available.

What I would do is run `software-properties-gtk`, go to the Updates tab
and make sure you have selected both xenial-security and xenial-updates.
Then the newer, updated version of bsdtar and dependencies should be
available. (Once you do this, you probably also have a couple of hundred
security upgrades lined up for install)

I am not sure why you don't have these repos enabled by default, but
there's a couple of other strange this with your repo list. It also
seems to include the Ubuntu archives for trusty and precise-security
which are older releases and 16.04 will not expect or know how to mix
these packages. (I'm a bit surprised this hasn't caused other problems
yet) So you might want to consider removing those. (I'm not familiar
with most of the third party repos, so I can't say much about those.)

The main thing is anyways to enable regular and security updates for
xenial which should sort this out. :)

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Title:
  Ubuntu 16.04 - issue with bsdtar package installation

Status in libarchive package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  apt install bsdtar fails with dependency issue on 16.04:

  
  root at czz17163-laptop:~/scripts# apt-get install bsdtar
  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:
   bsdtar : Depends: libarchive13 (= 3.1.2-11build1) but 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3 is to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

  
  Solution:

  Include in repository the bsdtar package from https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/bsdtar/download
  (wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb )
  which works with libarchive13 in version 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3 which is included in U16.04

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