It's been my first time posting a question. I have install Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS on a server in order to be my NTP server for my network. I try to install the NTP server but I get the error:
$ sudo apt-get install ntp
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:
ntp : Depends: libopts25 (>= 1:5.18.16) but it is not installable
Recommends: sntp but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I tried also to install sntp, just in case, but same problem:
$ sudo apt-get install sntp
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:
sntp : Depends: libopts25 (>= 1:5.18.16) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I also tried the command below to install the libopts25 with NTP but same problem once again.
$ sudo apt-get install ntp libopts25
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libopts25 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'libopts25' has no installation candidate
It seems that the libopts25 package is missing or obsolete (?). If this package is dependancy for NTP, is there another procedure to install NTP on Ubuntu server?
The server has full access to the internet. Any recommendations will be helpful.
