Not able to install libssl-dev in ubuntu 18.04 for rvm

Question

I was trying to load rvm with for ruby 2.4 and rails 5 in ubuntu 18.04 but it depends upon libssl-dev. now installing it gives following error

vidur@vidur-desktop:~/rails_apps/tukaweb$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
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:
 libssl-dev : Depends: libssl1.1 (= 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.5) but 1.1.1c-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


vidur@vidur-desktop:~$ apt-cache show libssl-dev | grep -i version
Version: 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.5
Version: 1.1.0g-2ubuntu4

Answer 1

Hint from Link: https://github.com/rvm/rvm/issues/4357

 1. sudo apt purge libssl-dev && sudo apt install libssl1.0-dev
 2. rvm install 2.3.5 --autolibs=disable