mystery package

[Frank McCormick]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 01:48:21PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> Aptitude update and dist-upgrade are showing me 1 package not upgraded
>> but no name or other clues
>> How do I find out what it's not upgrading and why ??
> 
> apt-get upgrade shows you which packages are held back from being
> upgraded.  (I'm rather surprised that aptitude doesn't.)
> 
> You can often see the reason when you try to force apt-get to upgrade
> that package with apt-get install $packagename; it'll tell you what
> missing dependencies prevent it from being upgraded.  (Or alternatively
> find an upgrade path that removes 90% of your installed system packages,
> at which point you'll be happy to answer 'no thanks' at the confirmation
> prompt.)

This is the reuslt of apt-get upgrade:

 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 The following packages have been kept back:
  xserver-xorg-video-intel
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
 root at frank-desktop:/home/frank#

Then :

root at frank-desktop:/home/frank# apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package xserver-xorg-video-intel is not available, but is referred to by
another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package xserver-xorg-video-intel has no installation candidate
root at frank-desktop:/home/frank#


Weird huh ? It just started doing this.


Cheers