I get this error while installing ubuntu-sdk on clean install of Ubuntu 13.04 64bit:
szymon@szymon-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-sdk
[sudo] password for szymon:
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.
ubuntu-sdk : Depends: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu but it is not going to be installed
Depends: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Any ideas ?
Output of sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 13.04 _Raring Ringtail_ - Release amd64 (20130424)]/ raring main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates main restricted
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates universe
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring multiverse
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates multiverse
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security main restricted
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security universe
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security universe
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security multiverse
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security multiverse
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
## developers who want to ship their latest software.
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main
Output of apt-get install qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova ubuntu-sdk
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
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.
qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu : Depends: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-common but it is not going to be installed
qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova : Depends: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova-common but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: cordovamobilespec but it is not installable
Recommends: cordovaqt-runtime but it is not installable
Output of apt-cache depends ubuntu-sdk qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu && apt-cache policy ubuntu-sdk qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu
-cordova qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu
ubuntu-sdk
Depends: click
Depends: click-dev
Depends: click-doc
Depends: cordova-ubuntu-2.8
Depends: cordova-ubuntu-2.8-dev
Depends: cordova-ubuntu-2.8-examples
Depends: libqt5qml-graphicaleffects
Depends: libqt5sql5-sqlite
Depends: libqt5svg5-dev
Depends: libqt5v8-5-dev
Depends: libqt5webkit5-dev
Depends: libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev
Depends: qmlscene
qmlscene:i386
Depends: qt3d5-dev
Depends: qt5-default
Depends: qtbase5-dev
Depends: qtcreator
Depends: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu
Depends: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova
Depends: qtdeclarative5-cordova-2.8-plugin
Depends: qtdeclarative5-dev
Depends: qtdeclarative5-dev-tools
qtdeclarative5-dev-tools:i386
Depends: qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-ui-toolkit-plugin
Depends: qtlocation5-dev
Depends: qtmultimedia5-dev
Depends: qtscript5-dev
Depends: qtsensors5-dev
Depends: qttools5-dev
Depends: qttools5-dev-tools
Depends: ubuntu-html5-theme
Depends: ubuntu-ui-toolkit-examples
Depends: ubuntu-ui-toolkit-theme
ubuntu-ui-toolkit-theme:i386
Recommends: libqt5webkit5-qmlwebkitplugin
Recommends: qtdeclarative5-folderlistmodel-plugin
Recommends: qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin
Recommends: qtdeclarative5-particles-plugin
Recommends: qtdeclarative5-qtaudioengine-plugin
Recommends: qtdeclarative5-qtmultimedia-plugin
Recommends: qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin
Recommends: qtdeclarative5-qtsensors-plugin
Recommends: qtdeclarative5-window-plugin
Recommends: qtdeclarative5-xmllistmodel-plugin
Conflicts: ubuntu-sdk:i386
qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova
Depends: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova-common
Depends: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu
Recommends: <cordovamobilespec>
Recommends: <cordovaqt-runtime>
Conflicts: qtcreator-plugin-cordovaqt
Conflicts: qtcreator-plugin-cordovaqt:i386
Replaces: qtcreator-plugin-cordovaqt
qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova
Replaces: qtcreator-plugin-cordovaqt:i386
qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova:i386
Conflicts: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova:i386
qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu
Depends: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-common
Depends: ubuntu-ui-toolkit-doc
Depends: ubuntu-ui-toolkit-examples
Depends: android-tools-adb
Depends: dh-make
Depends: ubuntu-html5-theme
Depends: click
Depends: qtcreator
Conflicts: <ubuntu-qtcreator-plugins>
Conflicts: <ubuntu-qtcreator-plugins:i386>
Replaces: <ubuntu-qtcreator-plugins>
qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu
Replaces: <ubuntu-qtcreator-plugins:i386>
qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu:i386
Conflicts: qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu:i386
ubuntu-sdk:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.009~sdkppa~raring1~test6
Version table:
1.009~sdkppa~raring1~test6 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
1.004 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe amd64 Packages
qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu-cordova:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.7.1-0ubuntu1~raring1~test18
Version table:
2.7.1-0ubuntu1~raring1~test18 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.7.1-0ubuntu1~raring1~test18
Version table:
2.7.1-0ubuntu1~raring1~test18 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
2.7.0-0ubuntu3 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe amd64 Packages
OK so its working fine today,
apparently there was problem with version numbers in PPA, more info on this bug which now been fixed can be found here
I had the same problem. You should add the following ppa as well: