Comment 3 for bug 990416

   sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended

produces the following error message:

   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:
    texlive-latex-recommended : Depends: texlive-common (>= 2009-1) but it is not going to be installed
                                Depends: texlive-binaries (>= 2009-1) but it is not going to be installed
                                Depends: texlive-latex-base (>= 2009-1) but it is not going to be installed
                                Recommends: texlive-latex-recommended-doc but it is not going to be installed
                                Recommends: prosper (>= 1.00.4+cvs.2006.10.22-1) but it is not going to be installed
                                Recommends: latex-beamer (>= 3.06.dfsg.1-0.1) but it is not going to be installed
   E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.