Broken package error ubuntu

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, Robert C. Helling wrote:
> On 22 Mar 2014, at 12:14, Farzana Raisa <farzanaahmed17 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am facing some problem with ubuntu it is not letting me install
> > any software. Saying you have held broken package. Does anyone
> > have any idea how to resolve it?
>
> In that case I would run the synaptic package manager. There you can
> show the broken packages and either deinstall them or install the
> missing dependencies. When trying to do the later make sure you
> update your package list first (either in synaptic or by doing
> sudo apt-get update

Try this first:

	$ sudo apt-get -f install

and show us the output.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian