Installing application with dependencies

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when i want to install gns3 i face to lots of dependencies, this is the output:
sudo apt-get install gns3-gui
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:
gns3-server:i386 : Depends: qemu-system-x86:i386
Depends: qemu-system-arm:i386
Depends: qemu-kvm:i386
Depends: xvfb:i386
Depends: libvirt-bin:i386 but it is not going to be installed or
libvirt-daemon-system:i386 but it is not going to be installed
gsettings-desktop-schemas : Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend but it is not going to be installed or
gsettings-backend
libavahi-ui-gtk3-0:i386 : Depends: libgdbm6:i386 (>= 1.16) but it is not installable
libbz2-1.0 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4) but it is not installable
libcrypt1 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.25) but it is not installable
libdb5.3 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17) but it is not installable
libgdbm-compat4 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) but it is not installable
libgdbm6 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) but it is not installable
libgtk-3-common : Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend but it is not going to be installed or
gsettings-backend
Recommends: libgtk-3-0 but it is not going to be installed
libperl5.32 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29) but it is not installable
perl-base : PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.29) but it is not installable
zlib1g : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

how con i fix it? please help me.

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Missing important information. Which distribution and version are you using?

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Would you mind following the guidelines as described in

!?

That would be very helpful.

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PRETTY_NAME=“Kali GNU/Linux Rolling”
NAME=“Kali GNU/Linux”

VERSION=“2020.4”

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Did you really follow all the steps in

To my knowledge, Kali is Debian based, so you should explicitly take all the steps outlined in the “Debian” section.

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I would also recommend to observe the explicit warning on the Kali Linux homepage:

In the light of this, I don’t think you’ll have any chance to do what you intend.

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yes i have followed all of these steps.

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that is right but there were lots of people which con install gns3 on their kali distribution.
as well as believe it, that is a big challenge so we have to put to gather to solve it, this would be the meaning of community.

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Probably, they installed all the missing libraries one by one. In the end, GNS is a software exclusively geared towards “network professionals”.

This might be a very tedious task. On the other hand, freeing a small partition and installing a mainstream Linux distribution for installing and running this software on it, is a piece of cake. If I were you, I’d take this route.

I firmly believe in Larry Wall’s motto: “There’s more than one way to do it.”

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would please share your Email?

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As a matter of principle, I don’t share any contact details with people I don’t know.

If you didn’t understand an aspect of what I have written, please try to break it down into answerable questions.

If you didn’t understand anything: There are plenty of tutorials describing the parallel installation of operating systems out there. Their authors are far more knowledgable than I.

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ok Ms Mina thanks a lot.

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General rule:

If you have an issue with doing something basic on Kali, then Kali is not for you.

Use a more mainstream distribution and you’ll probably have better luck.

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