Kali Error while installing any package

Question

I had recently installed kali from parrot.
After Successful installation. I run
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt upgrade

Now I am unable to install any package. It shows me error:
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:
 gsettings-desktop-schemas : Breaks: mutter (< 3.31.4) but 3.30.2-7 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

When I try to run sudo apt full-upgrade, Another error:
 libc6-dev : Breaks: libgcc-8-dev (< 8.4.0-2~) but 8.3.0-6 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

This is my /etc/apt/sources.list:
http://http.kali.org/kali kali-last-snapshot main non-free contrib

And, ''apt-cache policy mutter'':
mutter:
  Installed: 3.30.2-7
  Candidate: 3.36.4-1
  Version table:
     3.36.4-1 500
        500 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 Packages
 *** 3.30.2-7 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Please Help.
Is anything extra I had to Post?

Festus Gichohi · Answer

I encountered the same problem and solved it by

going to /var/lib/dpkg/status
clearing the contents (these are dependencies in that file)
running
apt update && apt install -f

Nak JKro · Answer

sudo apt install gcc-8-base mutter libmpx2

karel · Answer

Open the log file in /var/log/apt/term.log in a text editor.

Scroll down to the most recent log entries near the end of term.log.

Locate any "broken" packages and remove them with sudo apt remove package-name.
You can get a list of actual held packages with:
dpkg --get-selections | grep hold

Try to run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade again.

Remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no longer needed as dependencies changed or the package(s) needing them were removed in the meantime.
sudo apt autoremove

Kali Error while installing any package

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