Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1322382
Title:
apt-get says that there are 'held broken' packages when there are no
held packages
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
While attempting to install some package, apt-get tells me:
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
But looking for the held packages returns nothing.
Hence, an obvious contradiction.
This problem is important because this message obscures the real
reasons behind the failure of the often used 'apt-get install'
command.
The message produced is absolutely not helpful for understanding of
what is actually wrong.
--- console log showing a problem ---
$ sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev
[sudo] password for xxx:
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:
libqt4-dev : Depends: libqt4-dbus (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but
4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-declarative (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but
4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-designer (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but
4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-help (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but
4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-network (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but
4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-qt3support (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: libqt4-script (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but
4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-scripttools (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but
4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-sql (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1
is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-svg (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1
is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-test (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but
4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-xml (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1
is to be installed
Depends: libqt4-xmlpatterns (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but
4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
Depends: libqtcore4 (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1
is to be installed
Depends: libqtgui4 (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.1
is to be installed
Depends: qt4-linguist-tools (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but it is not
going to be installed
Recommends: libqt4-opengl-dev (= 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4) but it is
not going to be installed
Recommends: libqtwebkit-dev (>= 2.0~) but it is not going to be
installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
$ dpkg --get-selections | awk '{if ($2 == "hold") print $0;}'
<... no output ...>
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