The following packages have been kept back

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Wed May 13 02:35:50 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Often when running apt-get upgrade I get a list of packages with this heading:
> "The following packages have been kept back:"
>
> How can I discover what is keeping these packages from being upgraded?

Try and install one of the held back packages specifically, with -s
simulate if you prefer and it will give you more info I believe.

Brian

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