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Unmet dependencies installing vim or vim-tiny

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I am trying to install vi and vim

I initially had vi instlled, and could not install vim, then I removed vi, and now I cannot install both.

I watch all threads in internet, that says you should update, uninstall or purge, then reinstall, but none are working.

Here are the logs:

[root@artik ~]# apt-get install vi.tiny

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package vi.tiny

E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'vi.tiny'

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'vi.tiny'







[root@artik ~]# apt-get install vim

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:

 vim : Depends: vim-common (= 2:8.1.0788-0york0~16.04) but 2:8.1.0837-0york0~16.04 is to be installed

       Depends: vim-runtime (= 2:8.1.0788-0york0~16.04) but 2:8.1.0837-0york0~16.04 is to be installed

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

now, file /etc/apt/sources.list

[root@artik ~]# cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial main universe

deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial main universe

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial-security main universe

deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial-security main universe

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial-updates main universe

deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial-updates main universe

deb [arch=armhf] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu xenial stable

# deb-src [arch=armhf] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu xenial stable

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main universe

# deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main universe

I am running ubuntu on Artik board

EDIT: Inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ I have:

[root@artik ~]# ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

artik-e2e-source.list

artik-e2e-source.list.save

artik-platform-artik533s-sources.list

artik-platform-artik533s-sources.list.save

jonathonf-ubuntu-vim-xenial.list

jonathonf-ubuntu-vim-xenial.list.save

nodesource.list

nodesource.list.save

and apt-cache

[root@artik ~]# apt-cache policy vim vim-common

vim:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 2:8.1.0788-0york0~16.04

  Version table:

     2:8.1.0788-0york0~16.04 500

        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/vim/ubuntu xenial/main armhf Packages

     2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.2 500

        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-security/main armhf Packages

        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-updates/main armhf Packages

     2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1 500

        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial/main armhf Packages

vim-common:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 2:8.1.0837-0york0~16.04

  Version table:

     2:8.1.0837-0york0~16.04 500

        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/vim/ubuntu xenial/main armhf Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

     2:8.1.0788-0york0~16.04 500

        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/vim/ubuntu xenial/main armhf Packages

     2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.2 500

        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-security/main armhf Packages

        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-updates/main armhf Packages

     2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1 500

        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial/main armhf Packages

EDIT 2:

When I do apt-get update I get an error, I don't know if it is important:

Err:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main armhf Packages

  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.162 80]

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answered 2 Years ago elecerna · Accepted Answer

It looks like you didn't run sudo apt-get update.

Additionally, this looks like you have installed a ppa. The ppa should be listed in a file located in /etc/apt/sources.list.d and will not be listed on /etc/apt/sources.list.

Run the following commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install --reinstall vim=2:8.1.0837-0york0~16.04

If this does not work, please let me know and we can investigate to see if you still have the ppa installed. If not, then you may want to reinstall the ppa. If you don't want the ppa, then you will need to clear your apt-cache and do some other stuff to remedy and I can give you further instructions on how to do that if that is needed.

Please post any errors. Thanks!

First, fix your sources.list file because it contains a line that should not be there by running the following command:

sudo sed -i 's/(deb http...archive)/#1/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get update

If you have removed the ppa, run the following commands:

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get remove vim vim-common vim-runtime

sudo apt-get install vim vim-common vim-runtime

Please post any more errors. Thanks!