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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:
 ros-groovy-desktop : Depends: ros-groovy-ros-tutorials (= 0.3.9-0precise-20121230-1215-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-nodelet-core (= 1.7.13-0precise-20130104-0044-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-navigation-tutorials (= 0.1.1-s1357278625~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-geometry-tutorials (= 0.1.3-s1357180133~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-orocos-kinematics-dynamics (= 0.2.3-s1356866050~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-filters (= 1.6.0-s1356883067~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-ros (= 1.9.39-0precise-20121230-1039-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-qt-gui-core (= 0.2.9-0precise-20121230-1116-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-vision-opencv (= 1.10.0-0precise-20130103-2226-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-perception-pcl (= 1.0.25-0precise-20130104-0113-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-rqt-common-plugins (= 0.2.7-0precise-20130104-0044-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-actionlib (= 1.9.11-0precise-20130102-2210-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-pluginlib (= 1.9.17-0precise-20121230-1042-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-bfl (= 0.1.0-s1356865773~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-image-common (= 1.9.22-0precise-20130103-0013-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-bond-core (= 1.7.9-0precise-20121230-1126-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-common-tutorials (= 0.2.3-s1357260780~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-ros-comm (= 1.9.39-0precise-20121230-1431-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-driver-common (= 1.6.4-0precise-20130104-0046-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-executive-smach (= 1.2.0-s1357171605~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-common-msgs (= 1.9.12-0precise-20130102-2305-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-dynamic-reconfigure (= 1.5.31-0precise-20130104-0028-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-xacro (= 1.6.1-s1356883947~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-robot-model (= 1.9.32-0precise-20130103-0230-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-bullet (= 2.80-s1356864687~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-visualization-tutorials (= 0.7.3-s1357254462~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-geometry (= 1.9.28-0precise-20130103-0121-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-documentation (= 1.5.3-s1356883236~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-laser-pipeline (= 1.5.5-s1357270022~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials (= 0.1.2-s1356864462~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-geometry-experimental (= 0.2.4-s1357179841~precise) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-rviz (= 1.9.18-0precise-20130103-2226-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-diagnostics (= 1.7.9-0precise-20130103-0122-+0000) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ros-groovy-robot-model-visualization (= 0.1.2-s1357171770~precise) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Asked by MRA on 2013-01-26 01:33:59 UTC

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Sometimes this happens because package repositories are being updated. You can wait a while, run sudo apt-get update, and then try again.

Asked by joq on 2013-01-26 03:41:51 UTC

Please provide more information. What platform are you on? What are your apt sources? Did you apt-get update?

Asked by tfoote on 2013-01-26 14:20:09 UTC

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