cannot install languages

Binary package hint: language-pack-gnome-en

I cannot install languages on ubuntu 10.04
The language support app freezes and can only be shut down through a restart
I did an upgrade from ubuntu 9.10, where I had dutch (nl) English (es) and spanish (es) installed.

command line I get:

apt-get -y install language-pack-gnome-en
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:
  language-pack-gnome-en: Depends: language-pack-gnome-en-base (>= 1:10.04+20100422) but it is not going to be installed
                          Depends: language-pack-en-base (>= 1:10.04+20100422) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

or

apt-get -y install language-pack-gnome-nl
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:

I have also tried
sudo apt-get clean
and
sudo apt-get update
with no improvement

HEEEELP!!!