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Getting "E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages." [duplicate]

This question is not a dupe. I have received the answer I wanted here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/411530/3285 Previously, I was getting this error when I merely tried to update. I believe this ...
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Can't install R with sudo apt-get install r-base [duplicate]

When I try to install R with sudo apt-get install r-base, it says Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. ...
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How to download and install unmet dependencies automatically [duplicate]

Is there any method on command line or a software that will download and upgrade/install all unmet(missing or outdated) dependencies for a package automatically. There are some packages that have ...
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Unable to install wine Xubuntu 16.04 64bits [duplicate]

I know there are several question about this subject, but some of them do not have any response, and for the ones which do, I have followed all the advices given and nothing fixed my problem. Every ...
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The following packages have unmet dependencies. mysql-workbench-community [duplicate]

You might want to run apt-get -f install to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies. mysql-workbench-community : Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.15.8) but 1.14.6-1 is installed ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 error run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these [duplicate]

I tried to upgrade using apt-get upgrade and got this error message: insserv: Starting DbSecuritySpt depends on monit and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting ...
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Can't install a bunch of packages starting with lib and ending in :i386[not actually a duplicate] [duplicate]

This is definitely NOT a duplicate. The "possible duplicate" I even said I tried in the original question. As for anything else, well, 16 comments and 1 answer that didn't work. It's clearly not a ...
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How do I resolve unmet dependencies after adding a PPA?

Occasionally, when I'm installing stuff, I get an error like the following: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the ...
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Upgraded to 18.04 and now have many broken packages and unmet dependencies

I made a terrible mistake and upgraded to 18.04 without making a backup in a different partition by doing: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt ...
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How to fix installation wine on ubuntu 14.04.3LTS 64 bit

I knew there are a lot of questions about wine but i can't find or fix with there answers. Can someone help me to fix installation about Wine please. Here are the command output while trying to fix ...
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Package dependency problems with broken packages but none listed to fix

I am trying to install wine on Ubuntu 15.04, I had it working before but I think something went wrong with 32 or 64 bit installations so I tried removing it to start again. Now I am trying to install ...
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Can't install software, apparently installed packages have unmet dependencies [duplicate]

I've got a DELL n5110 laptop, with intel i3-2330m cpu @ 2.20GHz x 4, 64 bit OS system, ubuntu 14.04 LTS operating system. The error that comes up is upon start up, and it gives me the option of ...
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Eclipse - Package dependencies cannot be resolved

I know there are a lot of questions on this topic, and I tried a lot of options that worked for some people, but I just cannot get this done. I am trying to install Eclipse on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and ...
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Wine dependency problem on Ubuntu 18.04

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 on Dell Vostro 3546 uname -a Linux <host-name> 4.15.0-122-generic #124-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 15 13:03:05 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linu I am having severe wine ...
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Error with vlc installation, dependency

I recently updated Ubuntu 14.04 from software updater. After update some packages were removed. after that I found that vlc has been also removed from my system. So I tried to install vlc and its ...
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