Re: "The following packages have been kept back"
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:16:45AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:16:55PM +0300, matlads@techmuk.ac.ug wrote:
> > What is going on, and why can't apt-get upgrade the remaining 62 packages?
> > How do I get it to upgrade them?
>
> It doesn't want to automatically process them for some reason. Explicitly
> telling it to upgrade each package with `apt-get install <package>` will
> cause apt to upgrade the package if it can or tell you why it can't.
>
Thanx Dave for writing back.
I run apt-get with the first package that was listed in the 'kept back' list
ie:
<typescript>
Script started on Sun May 27 18:59:47 2001
fot2:~# apt-get install aalib1
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
aalib1: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) but 2.1.3-18 is to be installed
^^^^^^^^
Depends: xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11) but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages
fot2:~# exit
Script done on Sun May 27 18:59:50 2001
</typescript>
Actually running apt-get install on any of the 'kept back' packages gets me
an error message with 'Depends: libc6' in it. (or a depends on a package(s)
that depends on libc6).
So I figure that I need to somehow upgrade my libc6 to > 2.2.2-2. But
apt-get says that '2.1.3-18 is to be installed' !?
How do I get it to upgrade my libc6?
Martin.
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