Re: aptitude unhold how

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 19 January 2015 05:30:40 Rusi Mody wrote:
> 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

$ aptitude search dpkg

Any luck?  

# aptitude update

$ aptitude search dpkg

any luck?

Then I'd look at your sources.list.

Lisi