Re: aptitude unhold how

[Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 10:50:04 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote:
> Running testing
> 
> While trying to upgrade, listbugs was giving a bunch of
> critical/grave errors.
> 
> Ran 
> $ aptitude hold
> 
> on all these packages then did upgrade.
> 
> One of these packages was dpkg
> 
> Now after upgrade tried running
> aptitude unhold dpkg
> 
> However still...
> 
> synaptic shows it as 1.17.13 both installed and latest
> and no upgradation possible
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/dpkg
> shows it as 1.17.23

Yeah synaptic and aptitude (and dpkg) dont mix too well
especially wrt pinning

http://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific-package

However cant find dpkg in aptitude(!!)
[Yeah I am not very adept at aptitude curses-gui]
Can only see
dpkg:i386
and
dpkg-repack