I tried that new command but it produced this (see below). At that point I didn’t continue through the original list of commands.
dbrokaw@DRBL14:~$ sudo apt install build-essential debconf debhelper dh-autoreconf wget devscripts libcap2-bin
[sudo] password for dbrokaw:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.9).
build-essential set to manually installed.
debconf is already the newest version (1.5.77).
libcap2-bin is already the newest version (1:2.44-1).
wget is already the newest version (1.21-1+b1).
wget set to manually installed.
You might want to run ‘apt --fix-broken install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
debhelper : Depends: autotools-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: dh-strip-nondeterminism (>= 0.028~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: dwz (>= 0.12.20190711) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libdebhelper-perl (= 13.3.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: po-debconf but it is not going to be installed
devscripts : Depends: libfile-dirlist-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libfile-homedir-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libfile-touch-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libfile-which-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libipc-run-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libmoo-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: patchutils but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wdiff but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: dput or
dupload but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libdistro-info-perl but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libgit-wrapper-perl but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libgitlab-api-v4-perl but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: liblist-compare-perl but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libstring-shellquote-perl but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: licensecheck but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: lintian but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: pristine-tar but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python3-debian (>= 0.1.15) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python3-magic but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: python3-unidiff but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: debian-keyring but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: equivs but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libsoap-lite-perl but it is not going to be installed
dh-autoreconf : Depends: autoconf but it is not going to be installed
Depends: automake but it is not going to be installed
Depends: autopoint but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libdebhelper-perl but it is not going to be installed or
debhelper (< 12.6~) but 13.3.4 is to be installed
Depends: libtool (>= 2.4.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt --fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
dbrokaw@DRBL14:~$