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

Hello.
I want to install a package but debian 7.X show me :

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

After it I run "apt-get update" or "apt-get install -f" or "sudo apt-get autoclean
" but problem not solved :(.
What is your idea?


Thank you.

Please provide the command you used, together with the complete output, and also the content of /etc/apt/sources.list.

The command is :

$ sudo apt-get install ooniprobe
[sudo] password :
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:
ooniprobe : Depends: python-txsocksx but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.




The output of "/etc/apt/sources.list " is :

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.7.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Multi-architecture amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20141018-13:43]/ wheezy main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.7.0 _Wheezy_ - Official Multi-architecture amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20141018-13:43]/ wheezy main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/updates main

# wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main

# wheezy-backports
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free

#OpenVAS
deb http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...v6/Debian_7.0/ ./

#Backports
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main

The python-txsocksx package is for Debian Wheezy only available in the backports repository. Try to install this manually first and then repeat the install command for your software.

You should have main contrib non-free on all of the lines in sources.list.
Also you 2 conflicting instances of backports in sources.list
But is wheezy still being maintained?

Only if the OP wants to use packages from contrib or non-free from the main repositories.Yes, with the release of Jessie Wheezy has been promoted to "oldstable" and will be maintained for a year after Jessie's release.

slightly off topic but as squeeze is still supported beyond the year how does that fit into the lifecycle. Does it mean that 6 will be supported beyond 7?

Fred.

squeeze is being supported by the Debian LTS team (and has been referred to as old-oldstable).
wheezy is likely to do the same if the LTS team remains a viable part of the project.

wheezy has been confirmed as LTS and will be supported until May 2018.

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS