Public bug reported: Below are the dependency issues that are keeping lsb from being installed on my Ubuntu 11.10 amd64.
$ sudo apt-get -f install lsb 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: lsb : Depends: lsb-core but it is not going to be installed Depends: lsb-graphics but it is not going to be installed Depends: lsb-cxx but it is not going to be installed Depends: lsb-desktop but it is not going to be installed Depends: lsb-printing but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ sudo apt-get install lsb-core 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: lsb-core : Depends: libc6-i386 but it is not going to be installed Depends: lib32z1 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 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: libc6-i386 : Depends: libc6 (= 2.13-9ubuntu3) but 2.13-20ubuntu5 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ sudo apt-get install lib32z1 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: lib32z1 : Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.4) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ** Affects: lsb (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/881223 Title: Can't install lsb in Ubuntu 11.10 due to dependency issues To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsb/+bug/881223/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs