[Bug 878141] Re: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes]

I agree that it does not look right if too many packages are about to be
uninstalled. For the time being you could try to upgrade the packages
that are held back as it says in:

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded.

You could just try

sudo apt-get upgrade

and if it shows you held back packages, try to install them one by one
with "sudo apt-get install ..."

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Title:
  E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
  caused by held packages.

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When I click on Install Updates in Update Manager, I get this error message:
  """
  Could not calculate the upgrade

  An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

  Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
  'E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.'
  """
  Note that it fails at this step and does not install anything.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.150.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct 19 08:09:12 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  GConfNonDefault:
   /apps/update-manager/check_new_release_ignore=
   /apps/update-manager/first_run=false
   /apps/update-manager/window_size=(600,600)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-10-17 (1 days ago)

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