Activity log for bug #1247553

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2013-11-03 09:43:44 borillionstar bug added bug
2013-11-03 09:55:46 borillionstar summary Eclipse will not install due to dependency Eclipse will not install due to dependency eclipse-platform
2013-11-04 18:22:22 borillionstar affects eclipse (Ubuntu) eclipse-ubuntu
2013-11-11 00:13:50 borillionstar description (saucy)babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install eclipse 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: eclipse : Depends: eclipse-jdt (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: eclipse-pde (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ok so I try to install the dependency: (saucy)babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install eclipse-jdt 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: eclipse-jdt : Depends: eclipse-platform (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ok so the output of output of 'dpkg --get-selections | grep hold' returns no results. I'm attempting to install eclipse so that I can write java source code, but it fails installing with unmet dependencies. I'm on: Ubuntu 13.10, Release: 13.10 Linux localhost 3.4.0 #1 SMP Wed Oct 23 03:22:56 PDT 2013 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux Here are the outputs of apt-cache policy and my terminal output after that. apt-cache policy eclipse eclipse:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: 3.8.1-4   Version table:      3.8.1-4 0         500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ saucy/universe armhf Packages apt-cache policy eclipse-data N: Unable to locate package eclipse-data (raring)babak@localhost:~$ apt-cache policy eclipse-platform-data eclipse-platform-data:   Installed: 3.8.1-4   Candidate: 3.8.1-4   Version table:  *** 3.8.1-4 0         500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ saucy/universe armhf Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status apt-cache policy eclipse-platform eclipse-platform:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: (none)   Version table: What I did: 1. I tried to install eclipse:     eclipse-jdt not going to be installed     eclipse-pde but it is not installable 2. install eclipse-jdt     Depends: eclipse-platform but it is not installable 3. Install -f eclipse-platform     following packages replace it: eclipse-platform-data 4. install -f eclipse-platform-data:     eclipse-platform-data is already the newest version. Phfft!!! Whats not happening here thats supposed to? Terminal Output ================================= babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install eclipse 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:  eclipse : Depends: eclipse-jdt (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not going to be installed            Depends: eclipse-pde (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not installable babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install -f eclipse-jdt 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:  eclipse-jdt : Depends: eclipse-platform (>= 3.8.1-4) but it is not installable babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install -f eclipse-platform Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package eclipse-platform is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it:   eclipse-platform-data E: Package 'eclipse-platform' has no installation candidate (raring)babak@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install -f eclipse-platform-data Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done eclipse-platform-data is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: eclipse-jdt (not installed) Uname: Linux 3.4.0 armv7l ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: armhf Date: Sun Nov 10 15:48:04 2013 MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron:  TERM=xterm  PATH=(custom, no user)  LANG=en_US.UTF-8  SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: eclipse UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
2013-11-22 22:56:14 Ion Dune bug added subscriber Ion Dune