When I try to install ruby-rvm, I get this...

$ sudo apt-get install ruby-rvm

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:

 ruby-rvm : Depends: libreadline-gplv2-dev but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Alright, fine, so I'll install libreadline-gplv2-dev.

$ sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libdb5.1-java-gcj libdb-je-java gcj-4.6-jre-lib libecj-java ttf-dejavu-extra eclipse-platform-data ruby1.9.1-examples gcj-4.6-base

  libxerces2-java libswt-gtk-3-jni libgcj-bc libjtidy-java gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3:i386 libicu4j-java libservlet2.4-java libswt-cairo-gtk-3-jni

  libcommons-beanutils-java junit libdb-java ruby1.9.1-dev libcommons-cli-java libtcltk-ruby1.9.1 libcommons-logging-java libcommons-compress-java libgcj12

  libswt-gtk-3-java libdb5.1-java libicu4j-4.4-java libswt-gnome-gtk-3-jni libyaml-0-2 icedtea-netx-common libjsch-java libruby1.9.1-dbg jarwrapper

  libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java libhal1 ri1.9.1 libapache-pom-java libxt-dev libxml-commons-external-java tzdata-java libcommons-el-java

  libservlet2.5-java libcommons-httpclient-java libslf4j-java libasm3-java libregexp-java fastjar libjasper-java libruby1.9.1 libcommons-codec-java

  libcommons-lang-java libhamcrest-java liblucene2-java liboil0.3:i386 libequinox-osgi-java libcommons-parent-java libcommons-collections3-java

  ruby1.9.1-full libgcj-common libcommons-digester-java libjetty-java libjline-java ruby1.9.1 libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni libswt-glx-gtk-3-jni

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

The following extra packages will be installed:

  libreadline5

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  libreadline-dev libreadline6-dev r-base-dev

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  libreadline-gplv2-dev libreadline5

0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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That looks bad. This will meddle with my java installation and remove r-base-dev? What's up with this?