In case if you meet such problem, it's better to run apt-get update
later and try again. It might be caused by the time frame between two
architectures' packages aren't being distributed at the same archive
sync, and the best solution is to wait for a while and try again.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067852

Title:
  libxml2-dev won't install, bad dependency

Status in “libxml2” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Running a basic `apt-get install libxml2-dev` on a brand new EC2
  instance running standard canonical ubuntu AMIs:

  $ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
  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:
   libxml2-dev : Depends: libxml2 (= 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.1) but 
2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.2 is to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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