Comment 0 for bug 1247553

(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.