Public bug reported:

(saucy)babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install eclipse 
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: 
 eclipse : Depends: eclipse-jdt (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not going to be 
installed 
           Depends: eclipse-pde (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not installable 
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. 

ok so I try to install the dependency:

(saucy)babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install eclipse-jdt 
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: 
 eclipse-jdt : Depends: eclipse-platform (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not installable 
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. 

ok so the output of output of  'dpkg --get-selections | grep hold'
returns no results.

** Affects: eclipse (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: armhf saucy

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  Eclipse will not install due to dependency

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