I am trying to install a program with the command:
~/Downloads$ sudo apt install ./argos3_simulator-3.0.0-i686-beta52.deb
and I am getting the response (error) of:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'argos3_simulator:i386' instead of './argos3_simulator-3.0.0-i686-beta52.deb'
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.
argos3_simulator:i386 : Depends: gcc:i386 (>= 4.2) but it is not installable
Depends: g++:i386 (>= 4.2) but it is not installable
Depends: cmake:i386 (>= 2.6) but it is not installable
Depends: freeglut3-dev:i386 (>= 2.6.0) but it is not installable
Depends: qt5-default:i386 (>= 5.5.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libxi-dev:i386 but it is not installable
Depends: libxmu-dev:i386 but it is not installable
Depends: libfreeimage-dev:i386 (>= 3.15) but it is not installable
Depends: libfreeimageplus-dev:i386 (>= 3.15) but it is not installable
Depends: liblua5.2-dev:i386 but it is not installable
Depends: lua5.2:i386 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I have used followed lots of forum advice such as; using synaptic and made sure gcc and g++ are installed and tried reinstalling them too.The rest I cannot find in synaptic. However I am still getting the error.
Any help is greatly appreciated, please note I am not an Ubuntu/Linux wizz! (this is probably obvious!)
selecting 'argos3_simulator:i386'
indicates that you seem to have tried to install argos3 before some other way, and apparently did not clean up afterward. 1) Make sure to clean up, and 2) Try passing the complete /path/home/to/file.deb instead of the shortcut "/."