Can't install uwsgi on ubuntu

Question

root@ip-10-194-97-94:~# apt-get install uwsgi

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:
  uwsgi: Depends: uwsgi-python2.6 (>= 0.9.6.5-0ubuntu1~lucid1) or
                  uwsgi-python3.1 (>= 0.9.6.5-0ubuntu1~lucid1)
E: Broken packages

Answer 1

I think you are using the uwsgi launchpad repo.

It is not obvious, but you shouldn't be touching the uwsgi package, but use the uwsgi-python package instead.

Explanation is given here, they are transferring from uwsgi to the name uwgsi-python.