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I tried installing tidy:

sudo apt install tidy

but it said it depended on a version of libtidy that is older than the one currently installed:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: tidy : Depends: libtidy5 (= 1:5.2.0-2) but 1:5.4.0-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 is to be installed

I then tried downloading the binary of the newer version of tidy (5.6) but despite it being released in 2017, there does not seem to be a DEB download. There is source code but I'm unsure how to build for Linux.

Any idea as to why there's no DEB version of Tidy 5.6 and why there's a package in apt that has a dependency that is outdated?

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  • OK building from source was straightforward, but the questions above remain.
    – bluppfisk
    Aug 19, 2018 at 14:52
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    The prefix deb.sury.org looks like not official deb-package. You can check by yourself with apt-cache policy tidy libtidy5. Libtidy5 package is available for artful and newer.
    – N0rbert
    Aug 19, 2018 at 17:49
  • ah, so I must've accidentally installed libtidy5 from a different source at some point? Can't really recall doing that ..
    – bluppfisk
    Aug 19, 2018 at 19:36
  • The output of apt-cache policy tidy libtidy will reveal the truth :)
    – N0rbert
    Aug 19, 2018 at 19:39
  • Yep, it seems that way, or another package did. At any rate I don't quite know why there's no deb version of tidy 5.6
    – bluppfisk
    Aug 19, 2018 at 19:56

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