Closing this based on your comment, good to hear the issue was resolved.
Might have been the mirror was temporarily out of sync.
** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746799
Title:
Perl won't install because it depends on the wrong perl-base
Status in perl package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Pretty clean Xenial install on a Docker environment. I try installing
apache2, which fails because it can't install perl. If I try to
install perl:
# apt-get install perl
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:
perl : Depends: perl-base (= 5.22.1-9) but 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2 is to be
installed
Recommends: netbase but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: rename but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
# dpkg -l perl*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture
Description
+++-=================================-=====================-=====================-=======================================================================
un perl <none> <none>
(no description available)
ii perl-base 5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2 amd64
minimal Perl system
un perl-modules <none> <none>
(no description available)
un perlapi-5.22.1 <none> <none>
(no description available)
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -v '^#'
deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted
deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted
deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted
deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main
restricted
deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial universe
deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial universe
deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe
deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe
deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-security main restricted
deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-security main
restricted
deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-security universe
deb-src http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/ xenial-security universe
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