title: Cannot install git on Linux Mint 17.3
body: <p>I'm trying to install git for several hours but whatever I do I get this error:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code> sudo apt-get install git
  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:
   git : Depends: liberror-perl but it is not installable
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.</code></pre>
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  <p>I've read answers here and I've tried the following without success:
  <code>
  sudo apt-get update<br>
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  sudo apt-get install -f
  </code></p>
  
  <p>I've tried solution from here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/899311/apt-get-error-when-installing-git">https://superuser.com/questions/899311/apt-get-error-when-installing-git</a></p>
  
  <p>I removed everything in <code>/var/lib/apt/lists/*</code> and ran <code>sudo apt-get update</code>
  I also tried to install <code>liberror-perl</code> and then the folllowing error:</p>
  
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  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree<br>
  Reading state information... Done
  Package liberror-perl 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
  E: Package 'liberror-perl' has no installation candidate
  </code></p>
  
  <p>How could fix this issue with packages? Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>Updated: Now I tried to install another package and I got the same error:</p>
  
  <p><code>Package 'devscripts' has no installation candidate
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