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I get the following errors while trying to install ownCloud: 

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:  owncloud : Depends:
owncloud-server (= 8.1.8-12.1) but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: mysql-server but it is not installable or
                        mariadb-server but it is not installable
            Recommends: exim4 but it is not installable or
                        mail-transport-agent but it is not installable
            Recommends: owncloud-config-apache (= 8.1.8-12.1) but it is not 
going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you haveheld broken packages.

How do I fix this?

andrew.46
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Randy Shimizu
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    What command did you give to install own-cloud? – rancho Jun 19 '16 at 19:29
  • The latest version of owncloud for Ubuntu 16.04 is 9.1. I assume that you have a older version of Ubuntu which you now upgraded. Is that the case? – user4124 Mar 04 '17 at 10:28

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There is a fork of Owncloud called Nextcloud, and it is the version that is better supported. I recommend to use Nextcloud instead.

In Ubuntu 16.04 you can install Nextcloud as a snap (the new type of installation packages for Ubuntu 16.04 or newer).

The full documentation on how to try the snap edition of Nextcloud can be found at https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap

user4124
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Do the following in terminal:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
sudo apt-get autoclean --purge
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get ugrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Hopefully now the dependency problem will get resolved

Now to install owncloud type in terminal

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud

To install owncloud files type in terminal

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud-files

NOTE: This will only work in Ubuntu 16.04

For Ubuntu 15.10

To install owncloud type in terminal

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_15.10/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_15.10/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud

To install owncloud files type:

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_15.10/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_15.10/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud-files

For Ubuntu 14.04

To install owncloud type

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_14.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud

To install owncloud-files type:

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_14.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud-files

In Ubuntu 12.04

To install owncloud type

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_12.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_12.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud

To install owncloud-files type

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_12.04/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_12.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
apt-get update
apt-get install owncloud-files
user4124
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rancho
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    I removed the 'find / -name "*owncloud*" -exec rm -rf {} \;' command from this reply. Apart from the obvious that it may remove irrelevant files from the whole filesystem, it may also damage the package management by removing important files that happened to have `owncloud` in their name. Also, please use 'sudo' for the commands that require root privileges. – user4124 Mar 04 '17 at 10:26