[Discuss] Ubuntu 22.04 apt-get problem

[Craig Miller]

HI Bernie,

Have you tried doing a:

sudo apt-get update

first?

I have had older packages which are no longer in the repo (because there 
is a newer version) and had apt-get fail for that reason.

Craig...

On 3/25/23 14:30, bctill wrote:
> Hello all --
>
> I'm trying to install the g++ compiler on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, and I 
> get the following:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install g++
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> 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 resolve 
> the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.35-0ubuntu3) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.1 is 
> to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> Running
>
> $ dpkg --get-selections | grep hold
>
> returns me nothing at all.  I am new to Linux, so I have no idea what 
> to do next.
>
> Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
>
> Regards,
> -- Bernie.
>
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