[Koha] problem Installing koha on ubuntu 12.04

Subhranil Bhattacharyya subhranilbhattacharyya at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 19:32:00 NZDT 2017


Dear sir,


I have some problem during KOHA installation, i am using Ubuntu 12.04
desktop-i386, when i am writing the terminal, sudo apt-get install koha
common, its shows following error messege


root at koha-H81M-WW:/home/koha# sudo apt-get install koha-common

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:

koha-common : Depends: libarchive-extract-perl but it is not installable

Depends: libgd-perl but it is not installable

Depends: libsereal-decoder-perl but it is not installable

Depends: libsereal-encoder-perl but it is not installable

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


root at koha-H81M-WW:/home/koha# sudo apt-get install -f

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

root at koha-H81M-WW:/home/koha# sudo apt-get install koha common

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package koha

E: Unable to locate package common

root at koha-H81M-WW:/home/koha#


please give my suggesion, what can I do


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