kubuntu-backports 4.10 after upgrade yesterday dixi@dixi-pc:~$ sudo apt-get -f install kmahjongg 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: kmahjongg : Depends: kmahjongg-data (>= 4:4.10.0-0ubuntu3~ubuntu12.10~ppa1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. dixi@dixi-pc:~$ sudo apt-get -f install kmahjongg-data Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done kmahjongg-data is already the newest version. dixi@dixi-pc:~$ sudo apt-get check Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done kdegames cannot be installed too dixi@dixi-pc:~$ sudo apt-get -f install kdegames 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: kdegames : Depends: kmahjongg (>= 4:4.9.4-0ubuntu0.1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. But there aren't any broken packages Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. sudo apt-get -f install kmahjongg 2. 3. Actual Results: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kmahjongg : Depends: kmahjongg-data (>= 4:4.10.0-0ubuntu3~ubuntu12.10~ppa1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Expected Results: installing
What you have encountered is downstream(Ubuntu) packaging problem in dependency. Nothing can be done in the upstream here. You can ask for help in the support channels (forum, mailing list, irc ,etc ) of (K)ubuntu.