Thanks. I eventually figured out which package was screwed with some troubleshooting help from someone on irc.debian.org. I had installed perl-* from testing because the stable release was giving me problems with mysql sometime last October (promising myself to fix it later, then promptly forgetting about it) so the combo of testing and stable packages was hosing me. This page: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/downgrade.html helped me downgrade the packages I had from testing and now I'm stable again (in terms of packages, not in anything else tho...)
Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC University of Oregon > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick R. Wade > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:21 AM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Stupid debian question > > Jason LaPier wrote: > > A quickie - Debian Sarge - how do I find out what packages > I have on hold? > > Trying to troubleshoot the "Unable to correct problems, you > have held > > broken packages." message. > > I would use dpkg-awk, but that requires installing it and > gawk, which might be a problem if APT is not being nice to > you. You might try > > # dpkg -l > > and see if any are marked "h". > > > -- > On two occasions I have been asked [by members of > Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine > wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not > able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that > could provoke such a question. > -- Charles Babbage > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
