Why are packages being held back

Tue Jul 17 00:27:24 UTC 2007

On Monday 16 July 2007, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
>
> Why is this happening?  Are these possibly broken packages or something?

Usually means the packages are really deeply interconnected (hal could easily 
be one such), and apt can't resolve what to do with them unless you 
dist-upgrade instead.  Try that.
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D. Michael McIntyre