Bdtyktl

New to Ubuntu/Linux, and having an issue. I'm trying to set up NordVPN on 18.04.1 Bionic Beaver, and I try to use the 4 install steps on the website here:

https://nordvpn.com/download/linux/

...and when I run the first command, I get this error:

sudo apt-get install /home/ubuntu/Downloads/nordvpn-release_1.0.0_all.deb

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Note, selecting 'nordvpn-release' instead of '/home/ubuntu/Downloads/nordvpn-release_1.0.0_all.deb'

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:

 nordvpn-release : Depends: gnupg2 but it is not installable

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So it seems I have a dependency issue regarding GNUPG2? So I followed with:

sudo apt-get install gnupg2

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Package gnupg2 is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source

However the following packages replace it:

  gpgv gpgsm gnupg-l10n gnupg dirmngr



E: Package 'gnupg2' has no installation candidate

...followed by:

sudo apt show gnupg

Package: gnupg

Version: 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1

Priority: optional

Section: utils

Source: gnupg2

Origin: Ubuntu

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

Original-Maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers <pkg-gnupg-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

Installed-Size: 370 kB

Depends: dirmngr (= 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1), gnupg-l10n (= 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1), gnupg-utils (= 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1), gpg (= 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1), gpg-agent (= 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1), gpg-wks-client (= 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1), gpg-wks-server (= 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1), gpgsm (= 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1), gpgv (= 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1)

Suggests: parcimonie, xloadimage

Breaks: debsig-verify (<< 0.15), dirmngr (<< 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1), gnupg2 (<< 2.1.11-7+exp1), libgnupg-interface-perl (<< 0.52-3), libgnupg-perl (<= 0.19-1), libmail-gnupg-perl (<= 0.22-1), monkeysphere (<< 0.38~), php-crypt-gpg (<= 1.4.1-1), python-apt (<= 1.1.0~beta4), python-gnupg (<< 0.3.8-3), python3-apt (<= 1.1.0~beta4), software-properties-common (<= 0.96.24.3)

Replaces: gnupg2 (<< 2.1.11-7+exp1)

Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/

Task: ubuntu-desktop, mail-server, cloud-image, samba-server, server, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop-share, lubuntu-gtk-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-qt-core, lubuntu-qt-desktop, lubuntu-qt-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Supported: 5y

Download-Size: 249 kB

APT-Manual-Installed: yes

APT-Sources: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages

Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement

 GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage.

 It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures.

 It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant

 with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC4880.

 .

 This package contains the full suite of GnuPG tools for cryptographic

 communications and data storage.



N: There is 1 additional record. Please use the '-a' switch to see it

Source: gnupg2?

Are there any suggestions on how I can go about fixing this gnupg2 dependency issue and install NordVPN before I try the longer install process where I'm assuming I'm going to run into this if not more issues? Or anything I can try? I'd rather use the latest Ubuntu and not have to downgrade. And I can't be the only one experiencing this. I've re-installed 18.04 twice now from the Ubuntu site. Thanks!

Had the same issue and it was resolved by running apt-get update prior to installing gnupg.