Unable to install libserdes debian packages

[Peter Gejgus]

Hello,

There is the page describing available Confluent debian packages: https://docs.confluent.io/current/installation/available_packages.html# . I tried to install confluent-libserdes-dev package on the Ubuntu 16.04.

I did the following steps:

1) Added Confluent repository to the /etc/apt/sources.list:

    wget -q0 - https://packages.confluent.io/deb/4.1/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

    sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.confuent.io/deb/4.1 stable main"

2) Install confluent-libserdes-dev package:

    sudo apt-get install confluent-libserdes-dev

Here is the output I got:

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:

 confluent-libserdes-dev : Depends: confluent-libserdes1 (= 4.1.0-1) but it is not going to be installed

                                         Depends: confluent-libserdes++1 (= 4.1.0-1) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

My questions:

1) Why it's not possible to install confluent-libserdes-dev and whole tree of dependencies using one command (sudo apt-get install confluent-libserdes-dev)?

2) Should I install all dependent packages one by one starting at the bottom of the dependency tree?

Peter