Problem installing uuid-dev

Question

$ sudo apt-get install uuid-dev
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:
 uuid-dev : Depends: libuuid1 (= 2.27.1-6ubuntu3) but 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Solution

You need downgrade your libuuid1 version from 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.1 to 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.

You can use apt-get to do a downgrade, refer to this answer.

sudo apt-get install <package-name>=<package-version-number> OR
sudo apt-get -t=<target release> install <package-name>

If you are using synaptic package manager, you can also just simply select the package (in your case, search and select libuuid1), and go to menu Package > Force Version.. to choose the version you would like to install, then click Apply.

Comments

[Thomas Ward]

Run sudo apt-get update then try. I think you maybe have out of date repository information.

[coronaa]

i make update and still get same problem

[Admin]

Any error messages after apt-get update? Please post them. Either way proceed to a full update with sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. Again, if you notice error messages post them.

[coronaa]

E: Failed to fetch old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-security/main/… 404 Not Found i have the same error for multibul files

[coronaa]

still same error amanyubntu@amanyubntu:~$ sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.