Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2017-06-28, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> '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's less risky to add the -s switch and just be a user, thus:

I wasn't aware of that.

> $ apt-get -s install <package>

However:

curty@einstein:~$ apt-get -s install bzflag
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current
      situation!

I suppose 'locking is deactivated, so don't depend on the relevance to the
real current situation!" might mean on a multi-user system on which the
administrator is fiddling with a package manager concurrently, the
output of your command might or might not reflect reality.

>>>> [Re: apt-get upgrade problem] >>> What?

> Attached…

So you were facetiously applying my query to the Woolf signature quote
(which I don't see and didn't think anybody was seeing and assumed was
being snipped by the list master along with all the other conformingly
formatted signatures).

> Cheers,
> David.
>

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