[Solved] Can't install Palemoon, broken packages - libc6 ?
Posted: 2019-05-19, 12:44
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$ inxi -Sxxx
System: Host: Lenovo-ideapad-530S-15IKB Kernel: 4.15.0-50-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.10 wm: muffin 4.0.7 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:stevenpusser&package=palemoon
Now suddenly here's what happens:
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$ sudo apt install palemoon
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:
palemoon : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29) but 2.27-3ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
but when I try to install Palemoon using Synaptic I see the following:Successfully fixed dependency problems
In Synaptic under Additional Repositories I seeCould not mark all packages for installation or upgrade
The following packages have unresolvable dependencies. Make sure that all required repositories are added and enabled in the preferences.
palemoon:
Depends: libc6 (>=2.29) but 2.27-3ubuntu1 is to be installed
I don't know much about this stuff but my guess is that the Palemoon package wants libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1 as a dependency but I have a newer version, viz. libc6 2.29 installed.Opensuse / /
deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... untu_Next/ /
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list
Whatever the problem is, how do I fix it? TIA.