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Juozas Pocius (juozaspo) wrote : Getting dependency error when trying to install of vim on noble chroot

I'm getting dependency conflict when trying to install vim in Ubuntu noble chroot. The dependency version it wants is older then what is available in repositories. Running apt-get install vim fails with error as shown below:

$ sudo apt-get install vim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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 (= 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu3) but 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu6 is to be installed
       Depends: vim-runtime (= 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu3) but 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu6 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Apt-cache policy shows older version of vim available while in launchpad the newer version is shown, also the amd64 package version 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu6 is missing from repositories, no amd64 deb within repository pool directory of repository files

$ apt-cache policy vim
vim:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
     2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages

If vim was installed before, it would be uninstalled by upgrading vim-common and vim-runtime

My sources list file:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse

Contents of /etc/lsb-release

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu Noble Numbat (development branch)"