I have an application that requires the Java JRE. I decided to go ahead and install the JRE from the repositories. Normally, the only issue I would have with this is it taking forever and a day to download. However, this time, I get this…
ben@ben-Aspire-5250:~$ sudo apt-get install default-jre
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:
default-jre : Depends: default-jre-headless (= 2:1.7-51) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: openjdk-7-jre (>= 7~u3-2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
When trying to install openjdk-7-jre-headless directly, I get this:
ben@ben-Aspire-5250:~$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless
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:
openjdk-7-jre-headless : Depends: tzdata-java but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.9+ckbi-1.82-0ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I looked in Synaptic and tried to "fix broken packages", but Synaptic found nothing to do. When I try sudo apt-get -f install, I just get:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
What could be going wrong here?
It's worth noting that I changed all instances of us.archive.ubuntu.com to just archive.ubuntu.com, because the US servers were unstable when I installed. I haven't had any other troubles up until now.
Best Answer
Go to Ubuntu Software Center and search for the package software-properties-common, install that package if it is not installed.
Open your dash by pressing the Super Key (Windows Key) and type software sources. Go into the application that appears and place a check mark on all the packages present there.
After doing it, execute the following commands one by one, in a terminal window ( Ctrl+Alt+T ) :
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgradesudo apt-get dist-upgradesudo apt-get autoremovesudo apt-get autocleanand then run,
sudo apt-get install default-jreto install the package.