Failed to install Octave. Error: you have held broken packages

Asked Jun 13 '17 at 13:22

Active Jun 13 '17 at 14:55

Viewed 22 times

Here is the error I got while trying to install octave:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:octave/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install octave
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 octave : Depends: libarpack2 (>= 2.1) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: libcholmod2.1.2 but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: liboctave3 (= 4.0.2-1ubuntu5~octave~trusty1) but it is not going to be installed
          Recommends: default-jre-headless but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have tried many ways to install octave, but they have failed.

edited Jun 13 '17 at 14:55

prolificslacker

1,275

asked Jun 13 '17 at 13:22

suganya gopal

Check if dpkg --get-selections | grep hold gives any output – Arun Jun 13 '17 at 14:01
no it does not give any output.. – suganya gopal Jun 15 '17 at 05:42
Ok. The question is closed as duplicate. My facebook id is http://fb.com/arun.alpy – Arun Jun 15 '17 at 05:54

Failed to install Octave. Error: you have held broken packages

0 Answers0