virtualmin debian libbind9-80 broken packages

Written by Peter Davies on .

Performing a fresh install of Virtualmin on a new Debian 7 server we received the following errors:

Displaying the last 15 lines of /root/virtualmin-install.log to help troubleshoot this problem:
openssl set to manually installed.
procmail is already the newest version.
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:
 bind9 : Depends: libbind9-80 (= 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1) but 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2 is to be installed
         Depends: libdns88 (= 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1) but 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2 is to be installed
         Depends: libisc84 (= 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1) but 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2 is to be installed
         Depends: libisccc80 (= 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1) but 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2 is to be installed
         Depends: libisccfg82 (= 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1) but 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2 is to be installed
         Depends: liblwres80 (= 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1) but 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2 is to be installed

FATAL - Fatal Error Occurred: Something went wrong during installation: 0
FATAL - Cannot continue installation.
FATAL - Attempting to remove virtualmin repository configuration, so the installation can be
FATAL - re-attempted after any problems have been resolved.
FATAL - Removing temporary directory and files.
FATAL - If you are unsure of what went wrong, you may wish to review the log

A quick clean of the troublesome packages (which would be reinstalled anyway) solved the issue:

apt-get remove --auto-remove libbind9-80