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Debian Jessie - Unable to install ibncurses5 // Any help will be appeciated
emiratesgaming
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> root@ns3009102:~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> bash : PreDepends: libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) but it is not installed
> Recommends: bash-completion (>= 20060301-0) but it is not installed
> bsdmainutils : Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) but it is not installed
> gdb : Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) but it is not installed
> guile-2.0-libs : Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) but it is not installed
> mailutils : Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) but it is not installed
> mtr-tiny : Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) but it is not installed
> mysql-community-client : Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) but it is not installed
> procps : Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) but it is not installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> root@ns3009102:~#
Comments
I don't have the full context of what is going on or what the state of your system is, but to quickly get you back to moving on with things, here are a few ideas:
why don't you just manually install libncurses5 (hopefully apt-get install libncurses5 will do it for you or let you know what gives).
If apt is misbehaving (can't think of a reason - I assume you don't have mixed repos like jessie vs testing etc), and if it is only libncurses5, just manually download the deb and install via dpkg-deb and move on to the rest of your apt-get (as in your post). You may have to manually install libtinfo5 which is a dependency and perhaps a few more packages - I don't suspect this to be a very long list so you should able to manually install them without really descending into dependency hell.
Are your mirrors uptodate? (ovh.net)? Why not try some other mirror and see if that helps.
Hopefully this helps you move on with stuff...