Unmet dependencies on older version synaptics driver installation @ Ubuntu 14.04.2

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The installation of older version of synaptics driver throws an unmet dependencies error as seen below

Bash output

~  sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential libevdev-dev autoconf automake libmtdev-dev xorg-dev xutils-dev libtool -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
autoconf is already the newest version.
automake is already the newest version.
build-essential is already the newest version.
build-essential set to manually installed.
libtool is already the newest version.
git is already the newest version.
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:
 xorg-dev : Depends: libxaw7-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxcomposite-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxdamage-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxext-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxfixes-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxfont-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxi-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxinerama-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxmu-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxrandr-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxrender-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxres-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxss-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxtst-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxv-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxvmc-dev but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: xserver-xorg-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

System specs

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty
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processor       : 3
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 37
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       M 620  @ 2.67GHz
stepping        : 2
microcode       : 0xc
cpu MHz         : 1199.000
cache size      : 4096 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 2
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 5
initial apicid  : 5
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 11
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual