Fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with all updates applied. Running in Oracle VirtualBox VM.
ubuntu-bug is completely busted. When I tried to report it took me to the Web site and demanded I enter a package name, would not allow "I don't know" button to be checked. When trying to search for a package there were no packages in the list. Nice, very nice.
The repos for 20.04 LTS have xorg-dev and libglu1-mesa-dev completely broken at least as far as dependencies are concerned. Many many of the dependencies fail just like this:
developer@a-developer-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get install libfontenc-dev zlib1g-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:
zlib1g-dev : Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1) but 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1.2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
The needed -dev package is forced to depend on a version that is no longer the one the repos will try to install.
developer@a-developer-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgl-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:
libgl-dev : Depends: libgl1 (= 1.3.1-1) but 1.3.2-1~ubuntu0.20.04.1 is to be installed
Depends: libglx-dev but it is not going to be installed
libgl1-mesa-dev : Depends: libglvnd-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Right now the official repo is in such a state nobody can install xorg-dev libglu1-mesa-dev. One cannot even report bugs.
Is there a work around for getting xorg-dev and libglu1-mesa-dev installed with all development dependencies?
We chose Ubuntu 20.04 LTS because the LTS releases aren't supposed to have things like this in the repos.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libglib2.0-dev : Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.3) but 2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.4 is to be installed
Depends: libglib2.0-bin (= 2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.3)
libmount-dev : Depends: libmount1 (= 2.34-0.1ubuntu9) but 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.1 is to be installed
Depends: libblkid-dev but it is not going to be installed
uuid-dev : Depends: libuuid1 (= 2.34-0.1ubuntu9) but 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.1 is to be installed
zlib1g-dev : Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1) but 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1.2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
