Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
nishanth@nishanth-GA-880GM-USB3:~$ sudo apt-get install octave
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:
 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: liboctave2 (= 3.8.1-1ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: default-jre-headless but it is not going to be installed
          Recommends: libatlas3-base but it is not going to be installed or
                      libopenblas-base but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.