{"id":4388,"date":"2026-06-08T17:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4388"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:53:02","slug":"elements-vulnerability-management-scan-node-agent-installation-fails-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts-due-to-dependencies-and-broken-packages-errors","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/elements-vulnerability-management-scan-node-agent-installation-fails-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts-due-to-dependencies-and-broken-packages-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Elements Vulnerability Management scan node agent installation fails on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS due to &#8220;dependencies&#8221; and &#8220;broken packages&#8221; errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>I am unable to install the Elements Vulnerability Management scan node agent on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS<\/p>\n<p>Error message:<\/p>\n<p>user@host:~$ sudo apt install .\/f-secure-radar-scannodeagent-installer_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb<br \/>Reading package lists&#8230; Done<br \/>Building dependency tree<br \/>Reading state information&#8230; Done<br \/>Note, selecting &#39;f-secure-radar-scannodeagent-installer&#39; instead of &#39;.\/f-secure-radar-scannodeagent-installer_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb&#39;<br \/>Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have<br \/>requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable<br \/>distribution that some required packages have not yet been created<br \/>or been moved out of Incoming.<br \/>The following information may help to resolve the situation:<br \/>The following packages have unmet dependencies:<br \/>f-secure-radar-scannodeagent-installer : Depends: aspnetcore-runtime-2.2 but it is not going to be installed<br \/>Depends: powershell but it is not going to be installed<br \/>Depends: dialog but it is not installable<br \/>Recommends: libx11-xcb1 but it is not going to be installed<br \/>Recommends: libxrandr2 but it is not going to be installed<br \/>Recommends: libasound2 but it is not going to be installed<br \/>Recommends: libpangocairo-1.0-0 but it is not going to be installed<br \/>Recommends: libatk1.0-0 but it is not going to be installed<br \/>Recommends: libatk-bridge2.0-0 but it is not going to be installed<br \/>Recommends: libgtk-3-0 but it is not going to be installed<br \/>Recommends: libnss3 but it is not going to be installed<br \/>Recommends: libxss1 but it is not going to be installed<br \/>E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.<\/p>\n<p>Following installation sources were configured for Ubuntu via \/etc\/apt\/sources.list:<\/p>\n<p>deb <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu<\/a> bionic main<br \/>deb <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu<\/a> bionic-security main<br \/>deb <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/archive.ubuntu.com\/ubuntu<\/a> bionic-updates main<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>One of the packages required by the scan node (dotnet-runtime-deps-2.2) requires\u00a0liblttng-ust0 which is only available in the <b>universe<\/b>\u00a0ATP-repository. You can\u00a0execute\u00a0the\u00a0following commands resolved the issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$ sudo add-apt-repository universe<\/li>\n<li>$ sudo apt-get update<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the step above does not resolve the issue, proceed to run the following command:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n<li>Install Powershell:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li># Update the list of packages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">sudo apt-get update<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li># Install pre-requisite packages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">sudo apt-get install -y wget apt-transport-https software-properties-common<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li># Download the Microsoft repository GPG keys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">wget -q https:\/\/packages.microsoft.com\/config\/ubuntu\/18.04\/packages-microsoft-prod.deb<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li># Register the Microsoft repository GPG keys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li># Update the list of products<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">sudo apt-get update<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li># Enable the &quot;universe&quot; repositories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">sudo add-apt-repository universe<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li># Install PowerShell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">sudo apt-get install -y powershell<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li># Start PowerShell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">pwsh<\/div>\n<ol start=\"2\" style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n<li>Install .net:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0wget -qO- https:\/\/packages.microsoft.com\/keys\/microsoft.asc | gpg &#8211;dearmor &gt; microsoft.asc.gpg<\/li>\n<li>sudo mv microsoft.asc.gpg \/etc\/apt\/trusted.gpg.d\/<\/li>\n<li>wget -q https:\/\/packages.microsoft.com\/config\/ubuntu\/18.04\/prod.list<\/li>\n<li>sudo mv prod.list \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/microsoft-prod.list<\/li>\n<li>sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https<\/li>\n<li>sudo apt-get update<\/li>\n<li>sudo apt-get install aspnetcore-runtime-2.2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unable to install scan node agent on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[108],"class_list":["post-4388","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005752","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 14:53:02","import_hash":"1bf1286429aa3dbebe10a5b9419e683588e56026","vanilla_article_id":29453,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/29453-elements-vulnerability-management-scan-node-agent-installation-fails-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts-due-to-dependencies-and-broken-packages-errors","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":156,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}