Trouble installing cmake on Ubuntu 12.04

Question

For some reason I decided it would be a good idea to apt-get remove cmake from my ubuntu 12.04 distro and then put it back, but when I do sudo apt-get install cmake I get the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 cmake : Depends: cmake-data (= 2.8.7-0ubuntu5) but 2.8.11.2-1ubuntu2~precise1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I have also tried to install cmake according to this guide, which appeared to have completed successfully, but still no cmake. I get

bash: /usr/bin/cmake: No such file or directory

What would cause this issue and how can I fix it?

Answer 1

The link provided in the question sets the build directory in the configure to /opt/cmake, and as noted in that discussion, cmake can be ran as

$/opt/cmake/bin/cmake

You can copy the /opt/cmake/bin/cmake to the /bin/ directory, or add the /opt/cmake/bin/ directory to your $PATH environment variable to be able to use cmake as

$cmake

As for the dependency issue, it's currently still a mystery.