cannot install tzdata-java on 12.04 LTS

[Colin Law]

On 15 August 2013 10:57, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install tzdata-java in order to install headless, in order
> to install openjdk 7 jre.  I keep getting different forms of this error:
>
> root at dur:~#
> root at dur:~# apt-get install tzdata-java
> 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 resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  tzdata-java : Depends: tzdata (= 2012b-1) but 2012e-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 is
> to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

What do you see for
apt-cache policy tzdata-java
and
apt-cache show tzdata-java

> root at dur:~#
> root at dur:~# cat /etc/lsb-release
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS"
> root at dur:~#
>
>
>
> I've run autoclean,clean,update and upgrade from apt-get.  Is this
> because I'm on LTS?

No

Colin