Ubuntu – I cannot install Chromium or Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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just installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my assembled machine.
Tried to install Chromium via Ubuntu Software or Chrome but installing process stops very soon.
Tried to run in terminal:

sudo apt install chromium 

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package chromium 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: chromium-bsu:i386 chromium-bsu E: Package 'chromium' has no installation candidate

sudo apt install chromium-bsu 

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree       Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 chromium-browser-l10n : Depends: chromium-browser (>= 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263) but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: chromium-browser (< 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263.1~) but it is not going to be installed
 chromium-bsu : Depends: chromium-bsu-data (>= 0.9.14) but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: fonts-uralic but it is not going to be installed or
                         ttf-uralic but it is not installable
                Depends: libalut0 (>= 1.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libglc0 (>= 0.7.1) but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.10) but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Maybe, is there a problem of unmet dependencies..?

Best Answer

Yes, the problem was dependencies, these are fixed with

sudo apt -f install

The second issue was some left over file from apt's failed attempt to install in /var/cache/apt/archives, to fix this run

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium*

Now Chromium will install

sudo apt install chromium-browser

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