Unable to install php-mbstring

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago

 

I am attempting to install php-mbstring on a Ubuntu 18.04 server which already has apache2, php and mariadb installed. I have tried with the following sequence of commands:

jonathan@samuel:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for jonathan:
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb-10.3/repo/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Ign:4 http://downloads.mariadb.com/MaxScale/2.2/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:5 http://downloads.mariadb.com/Tools/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Hit:7 http://downloads.mariadb.com/MaxScale/2.2/ubuntu bionic Release
Fetched 172 kB in 2s (91.6 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
jonathan@samuel:~$ sudo apt install php-mbstring
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:
 php-mbstring : Depends: php7.2-mbstring but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
jonathan@samuel:~$ sudo apt -f install php7.2-mbstring
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:
 php7.2-mbstring : Depends: php7.2-common (= 7.2.3-1ubuntu1) but 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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