Re: New to debian, q about pkgs "on hold"
Most likely the packages in questions have dependencies which did not
previously exist. 'apt-get upgrade' will not install them, but if you
instead use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' you will get the held packages plus
any required dependencies (assuming that the dependencies are
available).
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:41:31AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote:
> I try to run apt-get upgrade once a week. I'm just pulling stuff from the
> potato dist, because I have no real need for bleeding-edge stuff. Anyway,
> for the past couple of weeks, I've been getting this message from apt-get:
>
> chester:/home/steve# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> gedit gimp1.1 gimp1.1-perl gnumeric libgimp1.1 sawfish sawfish-gnome
> task-helix-gnome
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
>
> What does this mean... "packages have been kept back"? Is this a Good/Bad
> Thing (TM)? Since I use helix-gnome with sawfish, I would like to have the
> most up-to-date stable versions. How do I make apt-get fetch these
> packages?
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Bob Nielsen, N7XY nielsen@oz.net
Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
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