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Re: "The following packages have been held back..."



On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 09:56:24PM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote:
> I see the message in the subject header when doing apt-get upgrade, followed 
> by a somewhat long list of packages. Can someone tell me what causes this? 

> After running the upgrade command, I did an "apt-get install" on one of the 
> packages that was in the list. It upgraded without a problem.

You can try to run `apt-get dist-upgrade`, this will often solve the
problem, but make sure you read the report before saying Yes, because it
may mark a package you want for deletion.

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