On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:10:41PM +0200, Fran?I wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a list of packages kept back (every time I issue an apt-get update > this is recalled by apt-get). > > I have used aptitude to try to understand why these are kept back. They're > all related to > xfree 4.2.1.pre0 while I'm currently having a 4.1.0-17 runinng X environment. > > How could I upgrade the conflicting/missing packages to have these 18 > packages been upgraded ? > > Thanks in advance > > Here are some output : > JoeBar:/home/fat# uname -a > Linux JoeBar 2.2.20-pmac #1 Thu Mar 21 17:08:23 EST 2002 ppc unknown unknown > GNU/Linux > > JoeBar:/home/fat# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > lbxproxy libdps1 libxaw6 libxaw7 proxymngr xbase-clients xfs xfwp xlibmesa3 > xlibs xlibs-dev xnest xprt xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xterm xutils xvfb > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded. > JoeBar:/home/fat# > > Then the list of kept back packages as represented by aptitude : > --\ Upgradable Packages > > --\ devel - Utilities and programs for software development > --\ main - The main Debian archive > ih xlibs-dev 4.1.0-17 > 4.2.1-0pre > --\ libs - Collections of software routines > --\ main - The main Debian archive > ih libdps1 4.1.0-17 > 4.2.1-0pre > ih libxaw6 4.1.0-17 > 4.2.1-0pre
This is a debian-user or maybe debian-x question. The 'h' indicates the package was put on hold. If you change that with + in aptitude, won't it take it off hold? -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
