[GitHub] [couchdb] SinanGabel commented on issue #1856: Unable to install CouchDB from apt in Ubuntu 18.04

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SinanGabel commented on issue #1856: Unable to install CouchDB from apt in Ubuntu 18.04
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/1856#issuecomment-536192567
 
 
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   On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 14:07, melvinroest <no...@github.com> wrote:
   
   > I don't know much about Linux. I do know a thing or two about programming.
   > Here is my complete tale of key spamming myself out of this situation.
   >
   > It all started with the same issue:
   > melvin@melvin-lubuntu:~$ sudo apt install couchdb
   > Reading package lists... Done
   > Building dependency tree
   > Reading state information... Done
   > Package couchdb is not available, but is referred to by another package.
   > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
   > is only available from another source
   >
   > E: Package 'couchdb' has no installation candidate
   >
   > I did a combination of the following things, which didn't work.
   >
   > melvin@melvin-lubuntu:~$ curl -sSL
   > https://couchdb.apache.org/repo/bintray-pubkey.asc | sudo apt-key add -
   > OK
   >
   > echo "deb https://apache.bintray.com/couchdb-deb bionic main" | sudo tee
   > -a /etc/apt/sources.list
   > deb https://apache.bintray.com/couchdb-deb bionic main
   >
   > sudo apt update
   >
   > melvin@melvin-lubuntu:~$ apt policy couchdb
   > couchdb:
   > Installed: (none)
   > Candidate: (none)
   > Version table:
   >
   > melvin@melvin-lubuntu:~$ uname -a
   > Linux melvin-lubuntu 5.0.0-13-generic #14
   > <https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/14>-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 15
   > 14:59:14 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
   >
   > *Then*
   > I decided to remove sources.list without knowing if such a thing is a good
   > idea (this is were my lack of experience really shines).
   >
   > sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list
   >
   > sudo apt update
   >
   > *Then*
   > I did all this keyboard spamming again (more or less in the same order as
   > I wrote it here).
   >
   > melvin@melvin-lubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install couchdb
   > 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:
   > couchdb : Depends: libicu60 (>= 60.1-1~) but it is not installable
   > Depends: libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.1) but it is not installable
   > Depends: libtinfo5 (>= 6) but it is not installable
   > Recommends: python3-progressbar but it is not installable
   > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
   >
   > *Progress!*
   >
   > I would continue, but I don't have time at the moment (appointment IRL, I
   > thought installing this would take 5 min. not 30, it's fun though :P). I
   > might get back to this.
   >
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