I seem to be unable to install gitk. Can anyone help me decipher the below:

$ git --version git version 1.8.3.2 $ sudo apt-get install gitk 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: gitk : Depends: git (< 1:1.7.9.5-.) but 1:1.8.3.2-0ppa1~precise1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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You probably installed a newer version of git manually, because your version of git is too recent for the gitk package that's in the repository.

You can either downgrade git, or manually install a newer version of gitk.

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