package is marked as defective in synaptic

[simon]

package can't be installed due to eiter it being defective or some dependency problem. please fix!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: listaller (not installed)
Uname: Linux 3.16.2-031602-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Mon Sep 15 17:04:29 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-12 (125 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.1)
SourcePackage: listaller
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I get the same error message when attempting to install Listaller through Synaptic. Presumably this is due to unmet dependencies which is also reported when attempting to install it with apt-get:

$ sudo apt-get install listaller
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:
 listaller : Depends: packagekit (>= 0.8.4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

As a workaround, it is possible to install packagekit and afterwards install listaller. Don't know why this works as separate steps, but it worked for me on Ubuntu 14.04 (i386)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

(Same problem is still present in 0.5.8-2 on Ubuntu Vivid)