Question

How can i get rid of "apache2 : Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed" in ubuntu 14.04 desktop?

This is the error message i have at console when running “sudo apt-get install apache2”

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: apache2 : Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed Depends: apache2-bin (= 2.4.7-1ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: apache2-data (= 2.4.7-1ubuntu4) but 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.13 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Output of update $sudo apt-get update Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main amd64 Packages Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main amd64 Packages Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main i386 Packages Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en_IN Reading package lists… Done

I have done recently sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list

Later i gone to sudo -i software-properties-gtk

and checked the canonical checkbox then,

sudo apt-get update this command i executed.

can any one help me to install apache in my ubuntu!

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Marko Mudrinić • September 21, 2016

You can try to fix all broken/missing packages by:

  1. sudo apt-get install -f

Also you can try:

  1. sudo apt-get update

  2. sudo apt-get upgrade

  3. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

  4. sudo apt-get autoremove

  5. sudo apt-get clean

This will update your system, remove unused packages, and clean out local repository of retrieved package files.

After you do it, try installing apache again:

  1. sudo apt-get install -y apache2

Good luck

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