Re: Broken packages............

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au> writes:

>>You have libavdevice52 installed and held at version
>>5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 which is too old.
>>See your held packages with "aptitude search ~ahold". Try removing
>>your hold with "aptitude unhold libavdevice52" and then try
>>reinstalling xvidcap.

Looking like I may have some serious problems with held stuff too.

I see a rather high number:

 aptitude search ~ahold|wc -l
  140

Surely that cannot be normal?
Please do not reply to this thread... I don't mean to highjack
Charlies' thread.

See `Subject: Yikes 140 held packages'