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I have followed exactly the same instructions for installing xkcd-browser but facing the dependency issues

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:brianrobles204/xkcd-browser; 
sudo apt-get update; 
sudo apt-get install xkcd-browser 

Source : http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/20-must-have-ubuntu-showdown-apps

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

xkcd-browser : Depends: gir1.2-gwibber-gtk-0.2 but it is not going to be installed 
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Can anyone help me in resolving this issue because its short of dependency-hell?

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  • Are you running either 11.10 or 12.04?
    – tgm4883
    Aug 23, 2012 at 19:42
  • @tgm4883 i was using 12.04 but now upgraded to 12.10 & i think now this its ppa doesn't work anymore. Still for people using 12.04 this needs to be solved.
    – kkdeep
    Nov 6, 2012 at 15:27

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Find these packages and replace existing files with these.

gir1.2-gwibber-0.2_3.4.0-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
gir1.2-gwibber-gtk-0.2_3.4.0-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
libgwibber-gtk2_3.4.0-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb

One place where you could find them is

http://pkgs.org/ubuntu-12.04/ubuntu-updates-main-amd64/

You can use dpkg -i to install these.

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  • But @razor aren't these packages specific for amd64 architecture? mine is i386 so i don't think this will work.
    – kkdeep
    Sep 9, 2012 at 15:59

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