On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:00 AM, The Wanderer <[email protected]> wrote: > Assuming you don't actually have any package holds (check 'apt-mark > showhold' to verify that), and since you've already confirmed that you > don't have any seemingly-applicable pins: > > Append one or more of the listed packages to the 'apt-get install' > command line, and see what you get; repeat as necessary. (You may well > eventually end up having to specify all of them.) > > In the end, you will probably wind up with an error stating that one > package's dependencies conflict with those of another; this most > commonly happens with versioned dependencies. From there, you can > specify install / remove actions for those two packages explicitly, in > order to break the dependency-resolution deadlock. > > If you're lucky, you can often shortcut this by looking at the > dependency / conflict lists of the named packages directly, via > 'apt-cache show' or similar. > > > Alternatively, if you know (or are willing to learn) how to use > aptitude's curses interface, it can do some of the work for you. Run > just 'aptitude' with no arguments, and refer to the program's internal > help documentation as needed; I'm only loosely familiar with it myself, > so I can't really guide you very well, but I've used it a few times to > track down and resolve such issues in the past. > > There's a relatively steep learning curve to the aptitude curses > interface, or so it seems to me, but it does seem to be fairly powerful > once you've gotten your head far enough around it.
Thanks for the detailed response. It gives me much to work with. kj
