E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Abhishek Dixit]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:25 AM, James Tappin <sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> IV> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> IV> > sudo apt-get install kword
> IV> > [sudo] password for deel:
> IV> > Reading package lists... Done
> IV> > Building dependency tree
> IV> > Reading state information... Done
> IV> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> IV> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> IV> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> IV> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> IV> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> IV> >
> IV> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> IV> >  kword : Depends: koffice-libs (>= 1:2.3.3-0ubuntu6) but it is not
> IV> > going to be installed
> IV> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> IV> >
> IV> >
> IV> > How can I fix above problem I used the apt-get install -f option and
> IV> > dpkg --configure -a also but I get above message each time.
>
> Did you at any stage try the calligra packages from the beta-ppa? I had a very similar sisuation when I tried to reinstall koffice after having installed calligra (and then removed it & its repository). Even after an apt-get autoremove I still had similat messages.
No no calligra etc.Now my problem has worsened some unknown chinese
language has got set all my folders are appearing in chinese.