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Getting this error even after installing packages manually as the depends warning continues.

Packages installed :

  1. libgegl-0.3-0
  2. libumfpack5.7.1
  3. libcholmod3.0.6
  4. liblapack3
  5. libgfortran3

On installing libgfortran3 the error is :

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgfortran3 :Depends: 
gcc-5-base (= 5.3.1-14ubuntu2) but 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9 is to be installed

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

But when I try to install gcc-5-base I get :

sudo apt install gcc-5-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gcc-5-base is already the newest version (5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Unable to understand and get pass this.

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libgfortran3 depends on gcc-5-base version 5.3.1-14ubuntu2. But you have version 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9. Downgrading gcc-5-base to required version should solve your problem.

To downgrade to required version, run this command.

sudo apt install gcc-5-base=5.3.1-14ubuntu2

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