Re: apt-get questions

[Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com>]

On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 09:07:31 -0600
Gary Lowder <gary@lowder.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Richard Kimber wrote:
> 
> > apt-get dist-upgrade is persistently holding back one package
> > (j2sdk1.3). Why is this, and what, if anything, should I do?
> > 
> 
> 
> This happens when the new package has more dependencies that you don't 
> already have installed.  Just do "apt-get install <package>" and it'll 
> upgrade the newer version of the package and it's new dependencies.  You
> 
> can confirm that it's not held back anymore by doing another "apt-get 
> dist-upgrade" afterwards and seeing that you don't have any packages 
> held back.

Thanks.  I've found out from someone else that the sources.list line
(taken from the relevant website some time ago) was faulty.  It needed a
"main" adding.

- Richard.