hank@yerpso.net wrote:
I've a bunch of machines on unstable ... one is holding back a lot of stuff on update/upgrade ... is there a command/switch that will tell me what dependency is holding things up? ... I'll just kill it off if it's non critical, as it's holding up postgres, openoffice, php and a bunch of other stuff ...
You could apt-get install a single package and it should say what it depends on and why it won't install.