Re: cannot install all updates

[Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>]

On Thursday 23 October 2008 08:25:04 JoeHill wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote:
> > > JoeHill wrote:
> > >> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages
> > >> are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...?
> > >> Not sure.
> > >
> > > ...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see
> > > what the 'proposed removals' were, which is why I'm concerned.
> >
> > This is why I never use synaptics, but stick with apt-get, the tool
> > that God Intended Us To Use.
> >
> > Besides, it will explicitly tell you what the problem packages are.
>
> node1:/home/joehill# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   hal
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   djvulibre-desktop libapr1 libaudio-dev libaudio2 libdjvulibre21
>   libenchant1c2a libhal-dev libhal-storage1 libhal1 libmono-cairo1.0-cil
>   libmono-corlib1.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-data-tds1.0-cil
>   libmono-data-tds2.0-cil libmono-i18n1.0-cil libmono-i18n2.0-cil
>   libmono-security1.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil
>   libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-sqlite2.0-cil libmono-system-data1.0-cil
>   libmono-system-data2.0-cil libmono-system-web1.0-cil
>   libmono-system-web2.0-cil libmono-system1.0-cil libmono-system2.0-cil
>   libmono0 libmono1.0-cil libmono2.0-cil libpci3 libperl5.10 libpq5
>   mono-common mono-gac mono-jit mono-runtime pciutils perl perl-base
> perl-doc perl-modules screenlets tzdata
> 44 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>
> I'll accept that you're right about apt-get in general, but it's still not
> telling me why hal is being held back.
>
> I didn't see anything in the manpage to give me more verbose information.
> I'm not saying it's not there, just that I didn't see it ;)
>
> --
> Joe

I dont want to start a church war, but try try aptitude why-not <package>