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Re: how to get pkg names not upgraded



Harry Putnam (reader@newsguy.com on 2011-10-21 19:19 -0500):
> When I run `aptitude full upgrade'  Sometimes I see something in the
> output saying some number of packages will not be upgraded.
> 
> Something like [...] 40 pkgs to upgrade 8 pkgs not upgraded. [...]
> 
> (That is not verbatim... just close)
> 
> How can I get the pkg names, that are not being upgraded?

That should be
$ aptitude search ~U

But it has happened to me that aptitude said that there were packages
not upgraded while search-upgradable would yield no results. YMMV

See
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html
for the complete search term reference.


Arno


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