Install of package kodi fails

root@system:~# apt-get install kodi
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:
 kodi : Depends: kodi-bin (>= 2:17.6+dfsg1-5pureos1) but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: kodi-bin (< 2:17.6+dfsg1-5pureos1.1~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@system:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  purebrowser
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Tried the same in a Debian Buster VM and it works.

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Did you updated first?

sudo apt update

Yes, both PureOS and Debian Buster ran apt-get update; apt-get upgrade beforehand…

Can’t you reproduce it?

@joao.azevedo Please see if you can reproduce this ^

I was able to reproduce this error. This issue is already being tracked here.

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Thanks, didn’t look at tracker - sorry. Hope the issue will get fixed soon.

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