On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 16:49, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:12:56PM -0500, Amy Tanner wrote: > > General apt question: when a package is 'held back', what can you do > > to determine why? > > I tend to go for brute force in this situation: apt-get install heldpkg I don't know how this works on RPM-based distributions, but on Debian, you can usually avoid doing that by running `apt-get dist-upgrade' instead of just `apt-get upgrade'. It tries to resolve dependencies through an upgrade. You should be careful and watch the messages, though, as it occasionally wants to remove things. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ "Spoon!" -- The Tick / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020515/69a290c6/attachment.pgp