broken package E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[thomas109]

Hi

strangewise i have a problem:
con not be solved by

sudo apt upgrade --fix-missing

sudo dpkg –configure -a

leads to : strange:
dpkg: error: need an action option

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-headers-generic-hwe-18.04 linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04 linux-generic-hwe-18.04Reading 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.
linux-headers-generic-hwe-18.04 : Depends: linux-headers-5.0.0-25-generic but it is not installable
linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04 : Depends: linux-image-5.0.0-25-generic but it is not going to be installed
Depends: linux-modules-extra-5.0.0-25-generic but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.





any idea how to solve this?

Thanks T

[Impavidus]

sudo dpkg –configure -a

leads to : strange:
dpkg: error: need an action option


That command should be
sudo dpkg --configure -aThat is, two dashes, not one en-dash. Did you copy the command via a word processor? Those applications often change pairs of dashes into en-dashes.

Let's see what's going on:
dpkg --list | egrep -v ^ii\|^rc
dpkg --list | grep linux-
df -h
It looks like you somehow got the metapackage for kernel 5.0.0-25 (maybe from proposed), but the latest kernel in the repos is 5.0.0-23.

Edit: 5.0.0-25 is now in the repositories, so this should now be trivial to fix.