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Re: How do I get aptitude to unhold???



On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:43:05PM -0500, "Dennis G. Wicks" <wix@eskimo.com> was heard to say:
> Yeah, it should be simple, but it isn't doing it!
>
> I have a whole bunch of packages held from back when I had a buggy 
> apt-get and aptitude and now I want to upgrade and I can't get them 
> unheld. Where is that list at? Is there any way I can just go delete the 
> list/file?
>
> This is what I do:
>
>      aptitude unhold sysvinit <etc.>
> and  aptitude -f unhold sysvinit <etc.>

  That should work.  What do you mean that they're "held" and that you
"can't get them unheld"?

  Daniel


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