[SOLVED] libfreetype6-dev FAILS to install

[Member PenguinGuy]

Fixed it by first force-installing the dependency for Debian 10.

sudo apt install libfreetype6=2.9.1-3+deb10u2
sudo apt autoremove -y

sudo apt install libfreetype6-dev

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Doing some C/C++ programming — ran into this dependency error:

$ sudo apt install libfreetype6-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:
 libfreetype6-dev : Depends: libfreetype6 (= 2.9.1-3+deb10u2) but 2.10.1-2mx19+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Is this normal — any ideas on how to fix it?

I’m using the 5.10.57 kernel on 19.4 Full amd64.

PKG info: https://pkgs.org/search/?q=freetype

• This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by PenguinGuy.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by PenguinGuy.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by PenguinGuy.

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