Hi,

Got the below error while installing php5-dev in my ubuntu 10.04.

root@aaaa:/usr/local/src# apt-get install php5-dev
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:
php5-dev: Depends: libssl-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I have tried to install libssl-dev

root@aaaa:/usr/local/src# apt-get install libssl-dev
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:
libssl-dev: Depends: libssl0.9.8 (= 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.15) but 0.9.8o-4squeeze13 is to be installed
E: Broken packages



I have upgraded apt-get and getting the below notifications :

root@aaaa:/usr/local/src# php -v
PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/mcrypt.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/gd.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626/gd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/mcrypt.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626/mcrypt.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/mysql.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626/mysql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/mysqli.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626/mysqli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/pdo_mysql.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626/pdo_mysql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.21 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Sep 4 2013 19:13:13)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

Kindly advise.

I assume your release is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Is that correct?
Is it normal to use Debian packages for Ubuntu?

You need to install php5-dbg
You need to install php5-myslql
and so on ....
jdk

Suspect your sources.list is messed up (the reference to "squeeze" is deeply disturbing), can you post the output of

Thanks for all the tips

I tried by using aptitude and it worked..