Re: How Can I Increase a 40 Packages Limit in Aptitude?
At Wed, 3 Dec 2025 19:18:49 +0100 Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 8:56�PM Chime Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com> wrote:
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> > Hi All: Many times when I cannot grab a package in apt, I run aptitude. Quite
> > often it will say something like "there are 89 packages but limit is 40" I
> > tried looking around for an aptitude config where I can increase or remove that
> > limit. I am in Debian SID. Thanks so much in advance.
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> I have never seen this problem but I couldn't really begin searching because:
> 1) What does "grab a package" mean? How do you do that with apt?
My guess would be:
sudo apt install some-package
> 2) Why can't you use apt? What kind of packages fail, and what's the error?
I expect that the package in question has an "odd" package name, eg something
like some-package-version-gibberish.
> 3) What can aptitude do in this case that apt can't? Are you using the
> GUI (TUI) or command line?
Guessing GUI and using the App Store to find the package by its picture,
rather than its full name.
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