[Qgis-user] Ubuntu 12.04 And Qgis 1.8 - Broken Depencies

[Giovanni Manghi]

> Has anyone had any luck with getting QGIS working on Ubuntu 12.04?


yes, I guess there are quite a few Ubuntu precise users around :)


>  I
> have tried the stable and unstable versions and with not luck. I also
> get the following:
> 
> "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:
> qgis : Depends: qgis-providers (= 1.8.0-1~precise1) but 1.9.90
> +git20120502+6229eec~precise1 is to be installed
>     Depends: qgis-common (= 1.8.0-1~precise1) but 1.9.90+git20120502
> +6229eec~precise1 is to be installed
>     Recommends: qgis-plugin-globe but it is not going to be installed
>     Recommends: qgis-plugin-grass but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."


it seems the guy has some mixed up repositories configuration.