apt install error

[Jerry Geis]

On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 9:07 AM Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Freitag, dem 09.02.2024 um 08:30 -0500 schrieb Jerry Geis:
> > I am running 20.04.3 trying to run
> >
> > apt update (works fine)
> > apt -y install net-tools --fix-broken
> > I get:
> >
> > Reading package lists...
> > Building dependency tree...
> > Reading state information...
> > You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  libncurses6 : Depends: libtinfo6 (= 6.2-0ubuntu2) but 6.2-0ubuntu2.1
> > is to be installed
> >  libpython3.8 : Depends: libpython3.8-stdlib (= 3.8.10-
> > 0ubuntu1~20.04) but 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.9 is to be installed
> >  libstdc++6 : Depends: gcc-10-base (= 10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04) but
> > 10.5.0-1ubuntu1~20.04 is to be installed
> >  udev : Depends: libudev1 (= 245.4-4ubuntu3.11) but 245.4-4ubuntu3.23
> > is to be installed
> >
> >
> > How do I fix that (I already added the --fix-broken) ?
> >
> looks like your package cache is out of date ... a simple "apt update"
> to retrieve the updated lists from the archive should be sufficient ...
>
> ciao
>         oli
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The "apt update" was in the text above... however, I did it again just now.
then tried the command again
 apt -y install net-tools --fix-broken

and I get the same error above.

jerry
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