I've often encountered dependency issues on Ubuntu. One time, while dealing with NVidia/CUDA, running `apt-get -y install cuda` complained about some missing dependency. I recursively went through the error messages and installed every missing dependency manually, and it worked, but it took me a long time and a lot of typing.

Then I wrote a script that does that automatically:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

    main() {
        local package="$1"

        if [ -z "$package" ]
        then
            echo "usage: $0 PACKAGE"
            exit 1
        fi

        install_package "$package"
    }

    install_package() {
        local package="$1"
        local subpackage

        if sudo apt-get -y install "$package"
        then exit 0
        else
            sudo apt-get -y install "$package" \
            |& grep '^ ' \
            | sed 's/[^:]*:[^:]*: //;s/ .*//;' \
            | {
                while read subpackage
                do install_package "$subpackage"
                done
            }
            sudo apt-get -y install "$package" \
                && echo "SUCCESS: $package" \
                || echo "FAILURE: $package"
        fi
    }

    main "$@"