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whale_steward
Asked: 2013-10-26 01:01:32 +0800 CST

how to install curl 13.04 with depency error

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how to install curl in ubuntu 13.04? it always throw this error :

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:
 curl : Depends: libcurl3 (= 7.29.0-1ubuntu3) but 7.29.0-1ubuntu3.2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

when using sudo apt-get update, it shows:

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

here are the steps i had done :

  1. using sudo apt-get install curl
  2. removing google-chrome-stable and chromium browser then sudo apt-get install curl
  3. use sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get clean then run the 1st step again.

also i have tried : How do I resolve unmet dependencies after adding a PPA?

and still throw the same error. at this point i dont know what i did wrong, is curl impossible to install in ubuntu ?

apt

2 Answers

  1. Just ran into this problem and since it had a different issue and solution I'm going to post it here.

    In my case, I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and the error was:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
curl : Depends: libcurl3 (= 7.35.0-1ubuntu2) but 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

    In my case, the problem was that I've unchecked, by mistake, trusty-security and trusty-updates repositories in the Software & Updates utility, and perhaps the dependency was going to be installed from one of that repositories:

    Software & Updates

    The bottom line is: make sure you have all the needed repositories enabled.

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  2. Best Answer

    as discussed from comment up above (with @fboaventura), it turns out that the ubuntu mirror i was using somehow causing the error, change it us.archive.ubuntu.com solve it. so overall :

    1. change the mirror back to us.archive.ubuntu.com or ubuntu main server using update manager>settings
    2. run command sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get -f install
    3. run command sudo apt-get install curl

    that's all hopefully this answer helpful to someone.

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