traceroute is not installing on ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Question

I tried to use traceroute for my networking project. But whenever I tried to install traceroute it shows that

Reading package lists... Done  
Building dependency tree         
Reading state information... Done  
You might want to run 'apt--fix-broken install' to correct these.  
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
code : Depends: libgconf-2-4 but it is not going to be installed  
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Then I followed this link. But again it is not successfully installed and shows that,

Reading package lists... Done 
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done 
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. 
The following packages have unmet dependencies:  code : Depends: libgconf-2-4 but it is not installed 
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Now my question is, How I can install the traceroute in my ubuntu 18.04?

Solution

UPDATE:

Your apt package manager is having trouble, you need to run:

sudo apt install -f
sudo apt autoclean

to check for broken installations and clean-up your apt package manager.

You should consider restarting your computer (depending on what apt fixed).

Now you can choose to use the tracepath package (preinstalled in linux) like this:

tracepath google.com

Or install Universe packages traceroute & net-tools with:

sudo apt install -y net-tools traceroute

Comments

[vidarlo]

Have you tried running sudo apt --fix-broken install like the output suggests?

[mefahimrahman]

thank you @waltinator. works with sudo command

[goo]

Howe are you trying to install traceroute? You didn't show us the commands. Have you tried sudo apt install traceroute? apt-cache search traceroute shows many choices.

[mefahimrahman]

I had used sudo apt install traceroute. @waltinator. BTW it worked for me using sudo command for apt --fix-broken install