For Comment #9, I had the same issue when trying to install cuda 7, and doing sudo apt-get install libglew-dev libcheese7 libcheese-gtk23 libclutter-gst-2.0-0 libcogl15 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-0 fixed it for me.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1428972 Title: Unmet dependencies for libcheese-gtk23 and libcheese7 on 14.04.2 Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I bumped into this issue while trying to install canonical- certification-client from our PPA [1] ubuntu@201307-13942:~$ sudo apt-get install canonical-certification-client 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: unity-control-center : Depends: libcheese-gtk23 (>= 3.4.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libcheese7 (>= 3.0.1) but it is not going to be installed E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. However, the version number for these two packages are bigger than the required version number: ubuntu@201307-13942:~$ dpkg -l | grep libcheese-gtk23 ii libcheese-gtk23:amd64 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 amd64 tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - widgets ubuntu@201307-13942:~$ dpkg -l | grep libcheese7 ii libcheese7:amd64 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 amd64 tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam - base library ubuntu@201307-13942:~$ I have no clue for how this happens. I thought it was a problem to our PPA (bug 1427524), but I think we're not alone [2] [1] http://ppa.launchpad.net/checkbox-dev/ppa/ubuntu/ [2] http://askubuntu.com/questions/593369/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1428972/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp