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Installing Samba - Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages

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Using: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

I have been trying to share a folder locally and it requires samba. When I do sudo apt install samba, I get the below error. I have searched online and none of the solutions worked. I tried reinstalling manually some packages below, but no luck. Do you know how I can fix this and get past the error? Thanks!

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.
 samba : Depends: python3-samba but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.9) but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: libpython3.8 (>= 3.8.2) but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.9) but it is not going to be installed
         Recommends: samba-dsdb-modules but it is not going to be installed
         Recommends: samba-vfs-modules but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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The most common reason for getting the `you have requested an impossible situation` paragraph is that folks have tried to bolt newer software onto an older base system. That means installing wrong-version packages from a wrong-version source, PPA, or non-Ubuntu source.You must locate and uninstall those *conflicting* packages. Then delete those sources that provided the conflicting packages. That's how "fix" the problem -- by returning to stock Ubuntu.
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