Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question
Hello the list!
I have upgraded this weekend from Jessie to Stretch. All went, overall,
reasonably smoothly -- the documentation around releases is getting
better and better. I plan to write a full report of the upgrade and
share it here shortly. In the meantime I have one question.
It seems like aptitude is falling out of favour in stretch, and apt as a
command line tool as opposed to the name for the general entire package
management system is being recommended these days. I've never been a
huge fan of apt-get (although to be fair that means little more than I
settled on aptitude [command-line version not ncurses version] and
learned its quirks a long time ago) and so I am, somewhat reluctantly,
making the switch to apt from aptitude. apt has a couple of features I
really like, but I do wish apt show made it easier to tell if a package
is installed -- you have to read a lot further down the info to find
out.
My question is that since the upgrade chromium is held back from
upgrading, and in this new world I don't know how to find out why. In
aptitude I would have done aptitude why-not chromium and it would most
likely have told me something useful about its dependencies. How can I
get apt to do similar? Or what tool should I use?
I'm aware that apt-cache depends chromium will tell me what it depends
on, but that doesn't tell me what is stopping it from being upgraded.
sudo apt upgrade and sudo apt full-upgrade both just tell me chromium
has been kept back, but not why.
sudo apt --fix-broken install finds nothing to do.
Suggestions would be much appreciated.
Mark
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