pbx1:/home/de_mon# aptitude -t stable install libmyodbc odbcinst1 odbcinst1debian1; apt-cache policy libmyodbc odbcinst1 odbcinst1debian1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed E: Unable to resolve some dependencies! Some packages had unmet dependencies. 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 packages have unmet dependencies: libmyodbc: Depends: odbcinst1 but it is not installable libmyodbc: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3.51.11-6 Version Table: 3.51.11-6 0 500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.51.09-1 0 500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu stable/main Packages odbcinst1: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.2.4-11 Version Table: 2.2.4-11 0 500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu stable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status odbcinst1debian1: Installed: 2.2.11-13 Candidate: 2.2.11-13 Version Table: *** 2.2.11-13 0 500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status