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cmanohar
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Apr 20, 2022

Unable to install microsoft -edge-dev on ubuntu

 

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo apt install microsoft-edge-dev
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:
 microsoft-edge-dev : Depends: libatomic1 (>= 4.8) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo apt install libatomic1
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:
 libatomic1 : Depends: gcc-8-base (= 8-20180414-1ubuntu2) but 8.3.0-6ubuntu1~18.04.1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ neofetch
        #####           lubuntu@lubuntu 
       #######          --------------- 
       ##O#O##          OS: Boot-Repair-Disk 64bit 20200604 x86_64 
       #######          Host: HP Slimline Desktop PC 270-p0XX 
     ###########        Kernel: 5.3.0-28-generic 
    #############       Uptime: 10 days, 2 hours, 13 mins 
   ###############      Packages: 1093 
   ################     Shell: bash 4.4.20 
  #################     Resolution: 1440x900 
#####################   DE: LXDE 
#####################   WM: Openbox 
  #################     Theme: Adwaita [GTK3] 
                        Icons: Adwaita [GTK3] 
                        Terminal: lxterminal 
                        Terminal Font: Monospace 10 
                        CPU: Intel i3-7100 (4) @ 3.900GHz 
                        GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630 
                        Memory: 2167MiB / 3829MiB

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Boot-Repair-Disk 64bit 20200604
Release:	18.04.4
Codename:	bionic
 

                                                

 

  • What version of Ubuntu are you on? If it's 18.04.4, that seems pretty old so I'd be curious if updating to something newer like 18.04.6 would help.

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