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Mohsin
Asked: 2018-06-21 23:58:55 +0800 CST

dpkg --get-selections | grep hold not working in 16.04

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I am getting this error

The following packages have unmet dependencies: phpmyadmin : Depends: ttf-dejavu-core but it is not going to be installed Recommends: mysql-client E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

But i cannot see what is the broken packages

after apt policy ttf-dejavu-core

I got this ttf-dejavu-core: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.33-2ubuntu1 Version table: 2.33-2ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise/main amd64 Packages 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise/main i386 Packages

after running sudo apt install -f

I got this lines Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

After running cat /etc/apt/sources.list I get these lines in my terminal

` root@mohsin:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list ############################################################# ################### OFFICIAL UBUNTU REPOS ################### #############################################################

###### Ubuntu Main Repos
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted 
universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted 
universe multiverse

###### Ubuntu Update Repos
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main 
restricted universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main 
restricted universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-backports main 
restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main 
restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main 
restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-backports main 
 restricted universe multiverse
Ubuntu Partner Repo

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner

Ubuntu Extras Repo

deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial universe main `

package-management grep phpmyadmin

1 Answers

  1. Try this

    apt-get autoremove

    apt-get update

    If you get broken help packages error while apt-get update, check in /etc/apt/sources.list if updates are enabled or not.

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