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Asaf Kahlon
Asaf Kahlon

Reputation: 104

Cannot install nasm on my Ubuntu

I've tried to install nasm using: sudo apt-get install nasm, but I got the following output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gcc-4.8-multilib : Depends: libc6-dev-i386 (>= 2.11) but it is not going to be installed
 libc6-dev-x32 : Depends: libc6-dev-i386 (= 2.19-0ubuntu6) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I don't know what goes wrong here as I new with Ubuntu/Linux OS

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5495

Answers (1)

salezica
salezica

Reputation: 77029

Your package manager has noticed that some of your packages, even though they're installed, have prerequisites that aren't. This seems to be the reason nasm is not working.

This happens sometimes. Luckily, you can instruct apt-get to automatically fetch and install the missing dependencies:

sudo apt-get -f install

The sudo prefix will run the command as the root user, giving it the elevated permissions it needs to install software. You can think of sudo as "Super User DO", or "Switch User and DO".

Upvotes: 1

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