Re: the following packages have been kept back?
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:12:20 +0000 Rachel Andrew <lists@rachelandrew.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried to do apt-get upgrade of my Woody system today and got the following
> message:
>
> The following packages have been kept back:
> base-config console-data kate kchart kdebase kdebase-libs kdm kfocus kivio
> kmid koffice-libs konqueror konsole koshell kscd kspread jugar kword libkonq3
>
> from searching the archives i figure this has to do with unmet dependences
> but I'm not sure how to fix it as I'd like these packages to upgrade.
>From the "upgrade" section of "man apt-get":
New versions of currently installed packages that cannot be
upgraded without changing the install status of another package
will be left at their current version.
When this happens to me, I manually "apt-get install" the kept
back packages.
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