anon@anon:~$ sudo apt-get install gcc
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:
 gcc : Depends: gcc-7 (>= 7.3.0-12~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
anon@anon:~$ sudo apt-get install gcc-7
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:
 gcc-7 : Depends: cpp-7 (= 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) but 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04 is to be installed
         Depends: gcc-7-base (= 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) but 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04 is to be installed
         Depends: libgcc-7-dev (= 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
         Recommends: libc6-dev (>= 2.13-0ubuntu6) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
anon@anon:~$ sudo apt-get install gcc-7-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gcc-7-base is already the newest version (7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
anon@anon:~$