Help can't install any thing!

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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OK so I'm using Debian and when I try to use apt-get to install mysql and many other problems I get this response:

root@localhost:~# apt-get install mysql-serverReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency treeReading state information... DoneSome packages could not be installed. This may mean that you haverequested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstabledistribution that some required packages have not yet been createdor been moved out of Incoming.The following information may help to resolve the situation:The following packages have unmet dependencies:mysql-server : Depends: mysql-server-5.5 but it is not going to be installedE: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Sorry it is a bit messed up I'm on mobile right now and copy paste is terrible

So I've tried everything that Google gave me it seems like no one else is having this exact problem  I have even re-downloaded and installed the os With no avail. This is EXTREMELY frustrating to be honest I am surprised I have not destroyed any thing yet lol.

Please help if you can

 

 

 

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Actually I did not think about a different distribution I think when I get home I will try that.  This did work before I reinstalled the os which it turned out I did not need to do in the first place. Also I am using the root user over ssh atm. 

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Did you try forcing the version number, mysql-server-5.5, as it oddly asks for?

I don't know why it's saying it depends on itself, but it might be because of the version handling.

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I finally got it the sorces list was wrong it was set to get things from a disk. Any way I just edited that file and replaced the sources and it works.  FINALY

Thanks for the help people! 

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Sometimes it is the simplest things we overlook.