Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question
On 2017-06-25, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
'apt-get install <package>' will tell you why a package is being held
back (or, as discussed in another thread, will ask your permission to
install an extra package--or packages--in order to meet its dependencies).
--
"It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the
far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs.
Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To
the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.
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