# Cannot install Percona Server on Debian Jeese. packages have unmet dependencies

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**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [September 1, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/cannot-install-percona-server-on-debian-jeese-packages-have-unmet-dependencies/4379 "2015-09-01T07:57:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![erickp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@erickp](https://forums.percona.com/u/erickp)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/cannot-install-percona-server-on-debian-jeese-packages-have-unmet-dependencies/4379/1 "2015-09-01T07:57:56Z")

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Is it me or the repo is broken?  
Im using these instructions: [url][Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 - Documentation — Percona Server 8.0 Documentation](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.6/installation/apt_repo.html%5B/url%5D)

Distributor ID: Debian  
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 (jessie)  
Release: 8.1  
Codename: jessie

soporte@ayuda:~$ su -  
Password:  
root@ayuda:~#  
root@ayuda:~#  
root@ayuda:~# apt-get install percona-server-server-5.6  
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:  
percona-server-server-5.6 : Depends: percona-server-client-5.6 (\>= 5.6.25-73.1-1.jessie) but it is not going to be installed  
Depends: libdbi-perl but it is not installable  
Depends: libdbd-mysql-perl but it is not installable  
Depends: libaio1 (\>= 0.3.93) but it is not installable  
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.  
root@ayuda:~#

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**Author:** ![erickp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@erickp](https://forums.percona.com/u/erickp)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/cannot-install-percona-server-on-debian-jeese-packages-have-unmet-dependencies/4379/2 "2015-09-01T08:21:28Z")

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> [@erickp;42807](#):
>
> Is it me or the repo is broken?  
> Im using these instructions: [https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.6/installation/apt\_repo.html](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.6/installation/apt_repo.html)
> 
> Distributor ID: Debian  
> Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 (jessie)  
> Release: 8.1  
> Codename: jessie
> 
> soporte@ayuda:~$ su -  
> Password:  
> root@ayuda:~#  
> root@ayuda:~#  
> root@ayuda:~# apt-get install percona-server-server-5.6  
> 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:  
> percona-server-server-5.6 : Depends: percona-server-client-5.6 (\>= 5.6.25-73.1-1.jessie) but it is not going to be installed  
> Depends: libdbi-perl but it is not installable  
> Depends: libdbd-mysql-perl but it is not installable  
> Depends: libaio1 (\>= 0.3.93) but it is not installable  
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.  
> root@ayuda:~#

My mistake.  
I forgot to enable a set of source repos in my debian sources.list configuration  
deb [http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/](http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/) jessie main contrib  
deb-src [http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/](http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/) jessie main contrib