title: Installing perlapi-5.8.8
body: <p>My problem is that I want to install the package libgtk-perl on ubuntu but it fails due to its unmet dependencies i.e perlapi-5.8.8, I have also tried doing auto dependency installation but that also fails. The problem is that it is a virtual package and even though perl-base is installed (As shown in the instructions) perlapi can't be installed. Please can anyone help me installing perlapu-5.8.8</p>
  
  <pre><code>adminuser@adminuser-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get install libgtk-perl
  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:
   libgtk-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.8.8
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
  adminuser@adminuser-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get install perlapi-5.8.8
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Package perlapi-5.8.8 is a virtual package provided by:
    perl-base 5.8.8-7 [Not candidate version]
  
  E: Package 'perlapi-5.8.8' has no installation candidate
  adminuser@adminuser-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get install perl-base
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree        
  Reading state information... Done
  perl-base is already the newest version.
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  </code></pre>