On Jo, 10 nov 11, 04:56:08, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > What are you using for updates, just the Update Manager or > > apt-get/aptitude? > > I've actually used both on occasion. Are you suggesting I should run > something in particular with an specific apt-get/aptitude command. > > Is there any other circumstance that would account for such a high > count of held packages? It is a high count at 140 right... or is that > not so abnormal? In testing and unstable it can happen that a safe-upgrade/upgrade is not enough, because sometimes packages just need to be removed. From what I recall even Update Manager suggests this when it's necessary. I would suggest you run 'aptitude safe-upgrade' first and then try 'aptitude full-upgrade'. Don't worry, aptitude will present all changes to you before applying. If you don't like or understand what you see just copy-paste it here and we'll have a look. Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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