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Can not install per guidelines - libatomic1 and consequently gcc-5-base

Can not install per guidelines - libatomic1 and consequently gcc-5-base

I am attempting to install per official Spotify steps on their homepage. But, when I get to the apt-get install spotify-client, I get the error:

 

 spotify-client : Depends: libatomic1 but it is not going to be installed

 

attempted to install libatomic1 but get

 

libatomic1 : Depends: gcc-5-base (= 5.3.1-14ubuntu2) but 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4 is to be installed

 

Can anyone offer assistance?

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Strange. They are always released in sync.

 

Can you see what apt-cache policy says. Here is what it says for me:

 

$ apt-cache policy libatomic1 gcc-5-base
libatomic1:
  Installed: 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5
  Candidate: 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5
  Version table:
 *** 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
     5.3.1-14ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
gcc-5-base:
  Installed: 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5
  Candidate: 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5
  Version table:
 *** 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
     5.3.1-14ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

Try to do apt-get update again, maybe the packages files are broken somehow.

 

Could it be because I am o LUbuntu and not Ubuntu?

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