Thanks for the `sudo apt update` output. You seem to be missing some of the xenial repos and that is likely causing these issues.
If you look again on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive notice that there's three lines for packages in xenial. When 16.04 originally shipped, it included version 3.1.2-11build1 . Since then, version 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3 has been released but this is pushed to the xenial-security repo. So on my machine it looks like this: $ apt policy bsdtar bsdtar: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3 Version table: 3.2.1-2~ubuntu16.04.1 100 100 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages 100 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages 3.1.2-11ubuntu0.16.04.3 500 500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages 3.1.2-11build1 500 500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages Because I have multiple ones available. In fact, the package you manually downloaded came from the xenial-security repo, but you should have this available. What I would do is run `software-properties-gtk`, go to the Updates tab and make sure you have selected both xenial-security and xenial-updates. Then the newer, updated version of bsdtar and dependencies should be available. (Once you do this, you probably also have a couple of hundred security upgrades lined up for install) I am not sure why you don't have these repos enabled by default, but there's a couple of other strange this with your repo list. It also seems to include the Ubuntu archives for trusty and precise-security which are older releases and 16.04 will not expect or know how to mix these packages. (I'm a bit surprised this hasn't caused other problems yet) So you might want to consider removing those. (I'm not familiar with most of the third party repos, so I can't say much about those.) The main thing is anyways to enable regular and security updates for xenial which should sort this out. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1765646 Title: Ubuntu 16.04 - issue with bsdtar package installation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libarchive/+bug/1765646/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
