Re: "The following packages have been kept back"
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 01:30:41PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:53:16PM +0300, matlads@techmuk.ac.ug wrote:
> > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > aalib1: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) but 2.1.3-18 is to be installed
> > ^^^^^^^^
> > Depends: xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11) but it is not installable
> > E: Sorry, broken packages
> > fot2:~# exit
>
> > So I figure that I need to somehow upgrade my libc6 to > 2.2.2-2. But
> > apt-get says that '2.1.3-18 is to be installed' !?
> >
> > How do I get it to upgrade my libc6?
>
> For some reason, apt doesn't want to upgrade libc6 automatically. Try an
> `apt-get install libc6`; it'll probably just go right through,
No, it doesn't.
> but you
> may get some warnings that point at why apt wanted to leave it alone.
> You should upgrade it, in any case. The current stable version is
> 2.2.2-4, so I'm not even sure that 2.1.3-18 is still available.
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