Comment 13 for bug 1068422

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1068422] Re: Skype unable to install

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 05:39:17AM -0000, Arup wrote:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> skype-bin:i386 : Depends: libqt4-dbus:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: libqt4-network:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: libqt4-xml:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: libqtcore4:i386 (>= 4:4.6.1) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: libqtgui4:i386 (>= 4:4.6.1) but it is not going to be installed
> Recommends: sni-qt:i386 but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So this probably indicates that you have local or outdated versions of some
packages installed. The following command should give a more detailed
explanation (*very* detailed, so you probably want to capture the output to
a file and post it to this bug):

 sudo apt-get -oDebug::pkgProblemResolver=true install skype