Re: Apt-get upgrade holding back
Many thanks Daniel, Clearly correct & I have installed all the held
packages & they all had additional packages to install.
Regards
Steve
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:42:47AM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 05:48, steve downes wrote:
> > Apt-get upgrade is holding back a number of packages without giving a
> > reason. It seems to have them on hold & a few days later it still has
> > them on hold.
> >
> > Had a look in logs etc & cant find any reason. Anybody know why &
> > ideally what I can do about it.
> >
> > Packages are
> >
> >
> > abiword afterstep gettext gimp1.2 initrd-tool libwine rpm wine
> > scrollkeeper xpdf
>
> My understanding is that packages are held back if updating requires
> them to install additional packages - that is, a package that wasn't
> required when the app was originally installed is now required. You can
> fix it by apt-get installing the packages again.
>
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