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I'am trying to install libpulse-dev with apt get install. Somehow I am getting the following error code:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libpulse-dev : Depends: libglib2.0-dev but it is not going to be installed

Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages

I don't know how to fix this error. Apt and dpkg do not list any brocken package.
My sources.list file:

deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ buster main contrib non-free rpi
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ buster main contrib non-free rpi
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  • Have you recently done an "sudo apt-get update"? What version or Raspbian are you on? Perform cat /etc/*release and uname -a My Pi already has libglib2.0-dev installed so I couldn't recreate this. You could try to individually install the dependency using sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
    – HeatfanJohn
    Commented Dec 6, 2019 at 22:50
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    @HeatfanJohn the OP is using buster as you can see from his sources.list.
    – Ingo
    Commented Dec 8, 2019 at 15:30
  • You can search libglib2.0-dev package online on debian website and [download the package] (packages.debian.org/buster/armhf/libglib2.0-dev/download) manually for armhf architecture and then use dpkg -i libglib2.0-dev.deb , but maybe this lib need another libs , check the webpage before.
    – Ephemeral
    Commented Dec 8, 2019 at 18:50
  • Run sudo apt-get update and post any error messages you encounter. The package libglib2.0-dev should be available in Raspbian.
    – Dmitry Grigoryev
    Commented Dec 9, 2019 at 13:04

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I already had installed libglib2.0-dev package, but the installed version was too new for libpulse-dev. The solution was to install libpulse-dev using aptitude. Aptitude did automatically downgrade libglib2.0-dev to the required version.

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  • Please accept your own answer with a click on the tick on its left side. Only this will finish the question and it will not pop up again months for months.
    – Ingo
    Commented Dec 11, 2019 at 19:04

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