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I get the following errors while trying to install ownCloud: 

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:  owncloud : Depends:
owncloud-server (= 8.1.8-12.1) but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: mysql-server but it is not installable or
                        mariadb-server but it is not installable
            Recommends: exim4 but it is not installable or
                        mail-transport-agent but it is not installable
            Recommends: owncloud-config-apache (= 8.1.8-12.1) but it is not 
going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you haveheld broken packages.

How do I fix this?

andrew.46
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Randy Shimizu
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2 Answers2

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There is a fork of Owncloud called Nextcloud, and it is the version that is better supported. I recommend to use Nextcloud instead.

In Ubuntu 16.04 you can install Nextcloud as a snap (the new type of installation packages for Ubuntu 16.04 or newer).

The full documentation on how to try the snap edition of Nextcloud can be found at https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap

user4124
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Do the following in terminal:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
sudo apt-get autoclean --purge
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get ugrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Hopefully now the dependency problem will get resolved

Now to install owncloud type in terminal

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud

To install owncloud files type in terminal

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud-files

NOTE: This will only work in Ubuntu 16.04

For Ubuntu 15.10

To install owncloud type in terminal

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_15.10/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_15.10/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud

To install owncloud files type:

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_15.10/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_15.10/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud-files

For Ubuntu 14.04

To install owncloud type

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_14.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud

To install owncloud-files type:

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_14.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud-files

In Ubuntu 12.04

To install owncloud type

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_12.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_12.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud

To install owncloud-files type

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_12.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_12.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud-files
user4124
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