<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hi,<br><br>I had the same issue on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.<br><br>I ran the following commands<br><br>wget <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/init-system-helpers/init-system-helpers_1.57_all.deb">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/init-system-helpers/init-system-helpers_1.57_all.deb</a><br>dpkg -i init-system-helpers_1.57_all.deb<br>then run apt-get install bird2.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>August 3, 2020 10:57 AM, "Jason Kopacko" <<a target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:jason@kopacko.com?to=%22Jason%20Kopacko%22%20<jason@kopacko.com>">jason@kopacko.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote><div><div> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif">It's not simple.</div> <div style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif"></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif">I have been trying everything I can find via Google because packages just aren't available or something.</div> <div style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif"></div> <div style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif">root@#####:~# apt-get install bird2<br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree<br>Reading state information... Done<br>Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have<br>requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable<br>distribution that some required packages have not yet been created<br>or been moved out of Incoming.<br>The following information may help to resolve the situation:<br><br>The following packages have unmet dependencies:<br>bird2 : PreDepends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.56~) but 1.51 is to be installed<br>E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.</div> <div style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif"></div> <div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div> <div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif">Sorry if I come off as rude, I just fed up with trying to install this today.</div></div> <div dir="ltr"> <br><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Droid Turbo 2.</font> </div> </div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> <div> <div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 7:50 PM Kr <<a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:kr@vnpdigital.com">kr@vnpdigital.com</a>> wrote:</div> <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex; --darkreader-inline-border-left:#3e4446;" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=""><div> <div> <div></div>Hi,</div> <div>It is quite simple.</div> <div>You can run apt-get install bird2.</div> <div></div> <div>If you run into any issues, don’t hesitate to contact me.</div> <div></div> <div>Cheers.</div> <div>Krish</div> <div></div> <div><div> <blockquote type="cite" style="margin: 1ex 0px 0px; height: min-content; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 0.5ex; --darkreader-inline-border-left:#3e4446;" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=""> <div>On Aug 3, 2020 at 10:23 am, <<a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" tabindex="-1" href="mailto:jason@kopacko.com">Jason Kopacko</a>> wrote:<br> </div> <div><div dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif">I am beginning to give up. As a very inexperienced Ubuntu user, I am trying to install bird 2.x. But cannot seem to figure out how to use apt-get to install anything above bird 1.6. What am I doing wrong and why is this sooooo hard?</div> <div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"> <br><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Droid Turbo 2.</font> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></div> </blockquote> </div></div> </div></blockquote> </div> </div></div></blockquote> <br><br><signature><div style="min-width: 600px; width: 100%; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); --darkreader-inline-border-top:#303436; --darkreader-inline-border-right:#303436; --darkreader-inline-border-bottom:#303436; --darkreader-inline-border-left:#303436;" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left=""> <table style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-size: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --darkreader-inline-color:#e8e6e3;" data-darkreader-inline-color=""><tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 8px 0 0;" valign="top"><a target="_blank" href="https://vnpdigital.com"><img alt="photo-logo" class="fr-fil fr-dib" width="125" src="https://cdn.vnpdigital.com/1.png"></a></td> <td style="color: rgb(33, 160, 231); font: 90% Arial; border-left: 3px solid rgb(33, 160, 231); padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; --darkreader-inline-color:#36a9e9; --darkreader-inline-border-left:#116c9f;" data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" valign="top"></td> </tr></tbody></table> <table style="max-width:570px;"><tbody> <tr><td colspan="3" style="padding-top:10px;font:12px Arial;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 10px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); --darkreader-inline-color:#61ff61;" data-darkreader-inline-color=""></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div></signature> </div></body></html>