無法安裝軟體包。有沒有辦法自動安裝依賴項？

我使用 Ubuntu 14.04。我正在嘗試安裝需要一些依賴文件的 dpkg-dev 。

bin$ sudo apt-get install dpkg-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:
dpkg-dev : Depends: libdpkg-perl (= 1.17.5ubuntu5) but 1.17.5ubuntu5.6 is to be installed
           Recommends: build-essential but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: fakeroot
           Recommends: libalgorithm-merge-perl but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

之後，我正在執行以下操作，建議安裝所有依賴項，需要之前的安裝。

bin$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
 libsdl-image1.2 libtar0 libva-x11-1 libxcb-composite0 libxcb-xv0
 vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

這無法完成這項工作。請推荐一種克服這個障礙的方法。提前致謝。

1. 更新軟體包列表，看看是否修復它。
2. 使用其他工具aptitude，例如手動選擇版本，並解決衝突。UI 需要一些時間來適應，但拯救搞砸的依賴關係非常棒。

引用自：https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/367881