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Stefan Falk
Asked: 2017-06-07 01:31:19 +0800 CST

Cannot install libboost-all-dev because dependencies are not getting installed

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I am trying to install libboost-all-dev but I am getting

$ sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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:
 libboost-all-dev : Depends: libboost-date-time-dev but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libboost-filesystem-dev but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libboost-iostreams-dev but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libboost-log-dev but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libboost-system-dev but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libboost-thread-dev but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libboost-wave-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I've already tried to set the -f flag

sudo apt-get -f install libboost-all-dev

without success. I have no idea what the problem is here.

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1 Answers

  1. Make sure you run

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

    for keeping your Packages up-to-date. Try

    sudo apt-get purge libboost-all-dev

    for deleting the package with all attached files and then use

    sudo apt-get install -f libboost-all-dev

    For installing all again.

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