Timeline for Debian: Can't Install Anything (Package Cannot Be Installed)
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| May 13, 2022 at 16:20 | answer | added | user525775 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 20:18 | answer | added | Karmavil | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 21:57 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | What does apt-get -f install say? What about apt-cache policy vim? Do you have a file /etc/apt/preferences or files in the directory /etc/apt/preferences.d and if so what do they contain? | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 5:41 | comment | added | Dylan | I have been searching, and while I would rather solve the exact nature of your issue as it may be more deep seeded than just vim an alternative may be to try sudo apt-get install vim-runtime but keep in mind this is just a band-aide. | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 5:20 | comment | added | Dylan | Try something for me please, go ahead and do sudo apt-get upgrade so instead of just finding out about the updates available we actually install them. Then after that go ahead and reboot and try in install vim again. If it fails copy paste the results, I am curious if it has the missing dependency listed in the error. | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 5:16 | comment | added | user1833028 | Yes, it's an exact copy. I did apt-get update several times, although I may have neglected to try apt-get upgrade after some of the attempts of messing with it. Exact command: apt-get install vim. To boot, I think I'd have to look up the command output for update... but it didn't warn or anything. | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 5:13 | comment | added | Dylan | Can you please tell me the exact command you are running to try to install vim? Also what happens after you sudo apt-get update what is the general output? Have you attempted sudo apt-get upgrade what is the output of that? Also is the above the exact copy and paste from your sources.list file? Not from a website or anything? Also does it tell you what dependency is missing? | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 4:58 | history | asked | user1833028 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |