Ubuntu 22.04: cannot install libxml2-dev!

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:49:06 -0400 (EDT) "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> What is the cure for this:
> 
> 
> sauron% sudo apt install libxml2-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> 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:
>  libxml2-dev : Depends: libxml2 (= 2.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.3) but 2.9.14+dfsg-0+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 is to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> 
> I guess I can downgrade libxml2?
> 
> Yes, that works, but why did this happen?

PS: there are a couple of other libraries with "older" -dev packages.  Did 
someone drop the ball somewhere?

> 

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