Re: apt-get -u not printing held back pkgs

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Subject: Re: apt-get -u not printing held back pkgs
From: Alan James <alan@tomun.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 21:47:59 +0100
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:20:02PM -0500, DvB wrote:
>
> It was printing the held back packages before. Is there an option other
> than -u that I need?

use dist-upgrade instead of upgrade. Held back usually means not installable.
Not upgraded in this case probably means that the new version requires some other
new package that you dont already have. Thats what dist-upgrade is for.

Ask on the debian-user list about this sort of thing.

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