Help installing smbclient

I am trying to install smbclient on the Parrot Home edition, however I am receiving errors when trying to do so. It indicates that I have unmet dependencies and am holding broken packages. However, reviewing the unmet dependencies it appears that it trying to install newer versions than what it is actually asking for. Can anyone help me get smbclient working on my system?


  • Parrot OS 5.3 (Electro Ara) x86_64

  • sudo apt-get install smbclient
    [sudo] password for erebor:
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree… Done
    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:
smbclient : Depends: samba-common (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but 2:4.17.9+dfsg-0+deb12u3~bpo11+1 is to be installed
Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but 2:4.17.9+dfsg-0+deb12u3~bpo11+1 is to be installed
Depends: libwbclient0 (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but 2:4.17.9+dfsg-0+deb12u3~bpo11+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Trythis;
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-find-and-fix-broken-packages-on-linux/

Was able to resolve this issue after installing the indicated versions of the software that smbclient currently requires.