On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:00:03AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> I'm trying to clear some holds I've had on a number of packages, which
> currently result in 113 packages being kept back by apt-get. The
> packages I'd held were: apache, ecpg, libpgtcl, php3, and php3-mysql.
> The packages being kept back are listed below.
>
> I've cleared the "hold" flags on the five packages listed above using
> Jim Pick's trick:
>
> dpkg --get-selections | grep "hold" |
> awk '{ print $1 " install" }' | dpkg --set-selections
>
> ...but apt-get isn't impressed...
Thanks to several off-list responses.
I've re-run apt-get with --dist-upgrade, as suggested. This clears the
holds (and requires a 72 MB d/l on 56k dialup.... Grumble).
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