Re: APT: packages held back
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> [Note: this is a repost, since nobody responded to it, yet I find it
> hard to believe that nobody knows the answer to my question.]
>
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday I wondered how much MBs I'd have to download to upgrade my
> hamm
> system (plus *some* slink stuff in there) to slink, so I set my
> sources.list
> and did 'apt-get update' + 'apt-get upgrade' (and answered 'no' ;).
You most likely have a large number of packages in the held state, these
will not be upgraded automatically, you should use dselect to unhold them.
Jason
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