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Posted: **2019-05-19, 12:44**

$ 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

In the past I've installed Palemoon several times on different machines running different distros without any problems. I just followed the instructions on this web site

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.

When I try to fix broken packages using Synaptic, I get:

Successfully fixed dependency problems

but when I try to install Palemoon using Synaptic I see the following:

Could 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

In Synaptic under Additional Repositories I see

Opensuse / /
deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... untu_Next/ /
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:stevenpusser.list

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.

Whatever the problem is, how do I fix it? TIA.

Posted: **2019-05-19, 16:05**

DonNadie wrote: ↑
2019-05-19, 12:44
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.

I'm thinking vice-versa, that the one included with Ubuntu Bionic Beaver, has an earlier version of libc6.

Posted: **2019-05-19, 16:23**

Whichever way it is, how do I fix it so I can install Palemoon?

Posted: **2019-05-19, 17:13**

DonNadie wrote: ↑
2019-05-19, 16:23
Whichever way it is, how do I fix it so I can install Palemoon?

You're using Mint 19.1, which is based on Ubuntu 18.04. Make sure that you followed the "For xUbuntu 18.04 run the following:" instructions for adding the repository, because the 18.04 repository is the one you need. It sounds like you added one of the newer repositories instead of that one.

Posted: **2019-05-19, 17:45**

@Nigaikaze - ありがとう Arigatō. Thank you. 10-Q. I stupidly didn't follow the XUbuntu-18.04 instructions for adding the palemoon repository. All is copacetic now that I removed the wrong repository and added the right one.

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