apt-get install puppetserver fails with error: packages have unmet dependencies: Depends: puppet-common (>= 3.7.3-1puppetlabs1) but 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1 is to be installed Depends: puppet (>= 3.7.3-1puppetlabs1)

[Mamun Rashid]

I am trying to install puppet server on an ec2 ubuntu instance>

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I get: ubuntu@ip-172-31-43-240:~$ sudo apt-get install puppetserver 

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: 

puppetserver : Depends: puppet-common (>= 3.7.3-1puppetlabs1) but 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1 is to be installed 

Depends: puppet (>= 3.7.3-1puppetlabs1) but 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1 is to be installed

 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ubuntu@ip-172-31-43-240:~$

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BUT , I have

ubuntu@ip-172-31-43-240:~$ sudo apt-get install puppet-common 

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree 

Reading state information... Done 

puppet-common is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. 

ubuntu@ip-172-31-43-240:~$

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I got the package this way:

 wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb

sudo dpkg -i puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb

sudo apt-get install puppetserver

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I tried purging puppet-common and reinstalling it. I have also tried sudo apt-get upgrade.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!!

[Matthaus Owens]

There are a couple of possibilities for what could be going on. First, I don't see any calls to `apt-get update`. After adding a new apt source running `apt-get update` is needed for apt to find any new packages in that repository.

The second possibility is that you have an apt-pin in place[1]. If you could paste the output of `apt-cache policy puppet-common`, that would help to see what is going on.

A side note here: if you are trying to install the latest version of puppet and puppetserver, you'll want to be using the PC1 repos and not the main repos. There is documentation for them available here: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#apt-based-systems

[1] - http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

HTH

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