<div dir="ltr">Just wanted to add my input. I just recently noticed the same thing. Luckily i was just testing Zentyal, but when I installed python-apt after reading the error message, apt seemed to completely break. I would be curious on a workaround/fix for this as well.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 9:28 AM, yayo (j) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaganz@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaganz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I have this problem: I'm tring to install the guest tools following this guide: <a href="https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/guest-agent/install-the-guest-agent-in-ubuntu/#for-ubuntu-1604" target="_blank">https://www.ovirt.org/<wbr>documentation/how-to/guest-<wbr>agent/install-the-guest-agent-<wbr>in-ubuntu/#for-ubuntu-1604</a></div><div><br></div><div>This is the sources:</div><div><br></div><div><div></div></div><div><div class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs m_-4096370906652806399gmail-ruby" style="display:block;overflow-x:auto;padding:0.5em;background:rgb(248,248,248)"><div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/<wbr>ubuntu/</a> xenial main restricted</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/<wbr>ubuntu/</a> xenial-updates main restricted</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/<wbr>ubuntu/</a> xenial universe</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/<wbr>ubuntu/</a> xenial-updates universe</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/<wbr>ubuntu/</a> xenial multiverse</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/<wbr>ubuntu/</a> xenial-updates multiverse</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" target="_blank">http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/<wbr>ubuntu/</a> xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://archive.zentyal.org/zentyal" target="_blank">http://archive.zentyal.org/<wbr>zentyal</a> 5.0 main extra</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/<wbr>ubuntu</a> xenial-security main restricted</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/<wbr>ubuntu</a> xenial-security universe</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="monospace">deb <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/<wbr>ubuntu</a> xenial-security multiverse</font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace"></div></div></div><br><div><br></div><div>But when I try to install, I have this error:</div><div><br></div><div><div></div></div><br><div><div class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs m_-4096370906652806399gmail-coffeescript" style="display:block;overflow-x:auto;padding:0.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(248,248,248);font-family:monospace"><div><div>root@vmdczen01:~<span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"># apt-get install ovirt-guest-agent</span></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Reading package lists... Done</span></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Building dependency tree</span></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Reading state information... Done</span></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have</span></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable</span></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">distribution that some required packages have not yet been created</span></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">or been moved out of Incoming.</span></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The following information may help to resolve the situation:</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The following packages have unmet dependencies:</span></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"> ovirt-guest-agent : Depends: python-apt but it is not going to be installed</span></div><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399gmail-hljs-comment" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.</span></div></div><div></div></div></div><br><div><br></div><div>I've found that python-apt is in "main" repo:</div><div><br></div><div></div><br><div><div class="m_-4096370906652806399hljs m_-4096370906652806399ruby" style="display:block;overflow-x:auto;padding:0.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(248,248,248);font-family:monospace"><div><span class="m_-4096370906652806399hljs-symbol" style="color:rgb(188,96,96)">https:</span>/<span class="m_-4096370906652806399hljs-regexp" style="color:rgb(188,96,96)">/<a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial" target="_blank">packages.ubuntu.com/<wbr>xenial</a></span><span class="m_-4096370906652806399hljs-regexp" style="color:rgb(188,96,96)">/amd64/python</span>-apt/<wbr>download<br></div><div></div></div></div><br><div><br></div><div>So, what's the problem?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Can you help me? </div><div>Thank you</div><div><br></div></div>
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