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Cannot install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev

See original GitHub issue

Current Behavior

when I input sudo apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev

It shows error:

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:
 libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev : Depends: libavahi-client-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Versions

Homebridge: homebridge --version
Node: node --v8.11.3
OS: Linux raspberrypi 4.14.50-v7+ #1122 SMP Tue Jun 19 12:26:26 BST 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux

and g++ -v show that: gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Raspbian 6.3.0-18+rpi1+deb9u1)

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:6

Top GitHub Comments

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mloeschnercommented, Jul 20, 2018

Try to install libavahi-client-dev to met the dependencies. If that doesn’t work, you should figure out why the dependency libavahi-client-dev cannot be installed. A good way is to use aptitude instead of apt-get because it offers ways to resolve the situation.

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