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

[James Tappin]

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.

My fix:
	Start up apper, 
	select the installed packages icon.
	search by description for calligra
	remove those packages that were still installed
	install koffice and it worked.

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