Why apt holds something back, was - Re: Learn from suse install to improve my Ubuntu install?
Scott Kitterman
ubuntu at kitterman.com
Thu Aug 10 15:33:20 UTC 2006
On Thursday 10 August 2006 10:34, ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
> (As an aside, this should probably be in another thread, but is there
> any way possible to get apt to tell you WHY a package is in its "Held
> back" list? I know you can try things like dist-upgrade, but that's
> really a microsoft way of doing things. I'd like to know WHY, rather
> than just keep trying things to see if it works.)
Usually if I use -V (note the caps) it shows what versions are involved and
that's generally enough of a hint for me. From man apt-get:
-V, --verbose-versions
Show full versions for upgraded and installed packages.
Configuration Item: APT::Get::Show-Versions.
Last time I had a problem (upgrading to KDE 3.5.4) things were pretty verbose:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/55547
I did install some extra apt utilities. Here is what I currently have:
apt 0.6.43.3ubuntu2 Advanced front-end for dpkg
apt-listbugs 0.0.49ubuntu1 Lists critical bugs before each apt installa
apt-listchanges 2.59-0.2ubuntu7 Display change history from .deb archives
apt-rdepends 1.3.0-1 Recursively lists package dependencies
apt-utils 0.6.43.3ubuntu2 APT utility programs
Only apt and apt-utils are standard.
Scott K
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