issue installing smbclient on parrot

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i dont understand why i cant install smbclient – all dependencies are already installed – sudo apt upgrade samba-common samba-libs libwbclient0 --fix-broken --fix-missing does nothing at all

  • Parrot version in use (if you are not aware of it, open terminal and type cat /etc/os-release | grep VERSION):

Parrot OS 5.3 (Electro Ara)

  • Logs/Terminal output (use pastebin or similar services):

sudo apt install smbclient
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 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1~bpo11+1 is to be installed
Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1~bpo11+1 is to be installed
Depends: libwbclient0 (= 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u5) but 2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1~bpo11+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

We are working on parrot 6 to try fixing all package problems

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