[Bug 1921647] Re: sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done checkinstall is already the newest version (1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2ubuntu1). 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: build-essential : Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or libc-dev Depends: g++ (>= 4:9.2) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Steve Langasek]

Please show the output of 'apt policy libc6-dev' and 'apt policy libc6'.

** Changed in: build-essential (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  sudo  apt-get install build-essential checkinstall Reading package
  lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state
  information... Done checkinstall is already the newest version
  (1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2ubuntu1). 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:  build-essential :
  Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
  libc-dev                    Depends: g++ (>= 4:9.2) but it is not
  going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held
  broken packages.

Status in build-essential package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  sudo  apt-get install build-essential
  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:
   build-essential : Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
                              libc-dev
                     Depends: g++ (>= 4:9.2) but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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