I've fixed my problem, i've added trusty-updates to the sources.list in /etc/apt
the image i used didn't have it as standard.
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I'm also seeing this problem on Ubuntu 14.04 for the Parallella, because
of it I'm unable to compile Boinc Manager:
linaro-nano:~ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This
