Re: apt-get "package held back" question
Neal Lippman <nl@lippman.org> writes:
> I just did a "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" and was told that a
> package (which I know to have been recently updated) was being "held
> back."
Please see some of my earlier posts to see why tracking testing/unstable
updates with apt-get isn't a very good idea.
> Not being an apt expert, I'm not sure how to figure out WHY this occured
> and/or what to do about it in order to get the updated package. Can
> someone help me out with some info or pointers to a reference?
A package management tool such as aptitude will tell you. Usually the
problem is a dependency that can't be met. For example, I can see that
locales is currently held back on my system because it depends on an
unavailable version of glibc.
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