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Unable to install Phusion Passenger on Ubuntu Server 18.04


Running on a fresh install of Ubuntu Server 18.04 on Virtualbox, Windows 10 as the host OS. Ran the instructions on the Phusion Passenger site here

This is the error I'm getting:

steve@heartypet-staging:~$ sudo apt-get install -y libnginx-mod-http-passenger
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:
 libnginx-mod-http-passenger : Depends: passenger (= 1:5.3.4-1~bionic1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Oddly enough, the exact same instructions work fine on the desktop version.


Solution

  • Get default source list from here

    https://askubuntu.com/a/1036749

    Replace /etc/apt/source.list with the file in the link above. Then sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade

    And go ahead...