Re: apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What does it mean?
Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic@chello.at> writes:
> I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then
> every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me:
[...]
> The following packages have been kept back
> task-helix-gnome
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not
> upgraded."
[...]
Hmm, have you set task-helix-gnome on "hold"? Try 'dpkg -s
task-helix-gnome | grep "^Status:"' - it should tell you, wether it's
on hold or not. Packages on hold won't upgraded unless you force it
and produce exactly this message.
> What does "kept back" mean /exactly/? Can I "dpkg --purge
> task-helix-gnome" safely? My understanding is that it isn't needed after
> it has done it's duty of selecting all gnome packages that depend on it.
> Am I right?
Yes, it's a so called 'meta-package'; it just depends on other
packages.
moritz
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