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Cannot install plasma-desktop due to unmet dependencies
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Freshly installed system, updated.

mladen@librem13:~$ sudo apt install plasma-desktop
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:
 plasma-desktop : Depends: plasma-workspace but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libkf5baloo5 (>= 5.15.0) but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: kinfocenter but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
mladen@librem13:~$ sudo apt install libkf5baloo5 
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:
 libkf5baloo5 : Depends: libkf5configcore5 (>= 4.97.0) but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 4.99.0) but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libkf5filemetadata3 (>= 5.9.0) but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libkf5solid5 (>= 4.97.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Of the above, only libkf5filemetadata3 package cannot be installed manually:

mladen@librem13:~$ sudo apt install libkf5filemetadata3
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:
 libkf5filemetadata3 : Depends: libkf5i18n5 (>= 4.97.0) but it is not going to be installed
                       Recommends: libkf5filemetadata-bin (= 5.45.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

libkf5filemetadata-bin seems to have some cyclic dependency:

mladen@librem13:~$ sudo apt install libkf5filemetadata-bin 
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:
 libkf5filemetadata-bin : Depends: libkf5archive5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed
                          Depends: libkf5filemetadata3 (>= 5.22.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Event Timeline

mladen created this task.Jul 11 2018, 04:05
mladen updated the task description. (Show Details)
mak closed this task as Resolved.Jul 13 2018, 09:50

This should be fixed - can you please verify that the issue is indeed resolved for you?