Re: How do I UNHOLD a non-existent package?

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

On 24 Aug 2001, Adam Warner wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I used
>
>echo "<package name> hold" | dpkg --set-selections

echo "<package name> purge" | dpkg --set-selections

>To put a package on hold but it turned out I used the wrong name. And it
>is sitting in the package database as held:
>
>dpkg --get-selections <package name>
>
>Shows that the non-existent package is currently being held. Plus an
>apt-get install shows that the package exists in the database but has no
>installation candidate!
>
>It is possible that non-one in the world has ever answered how to unhold
>a non-existent package :-)
>
>When the unhold question has been asked in the past the advice was to
>install the package, but that is clearly not relevant in this case.
>
>Thanks for your help,
>Adam
>
>
>

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