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.

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