You have been subscribed to a public bug: apt install bsdtar fails with dependency issue on 16.04:
root@czz17163-laptop:~/scripts# apt-get install bsdtar 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: bsdtar : Depends: libarchive13 (= 3.1.2-11build1) but 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Solution: Include in repository the bsdtar package from https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/bsdtar/download (wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/liba/libarchive/bsdtar_3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb ) which works with libarchive13 in version 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3 which is included in U16.04 ** Affects: libarchive (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Incomplete -- Ubuntu 16.04 - issue with badtar package installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1765646 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libarchive in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
