Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 nov 11, 04:56:08, Harry Putnam wrote: What are you using for updates, just the Update Manager or apt-get/aptitude? I've actually used both on occasion. Are you suggesting I should run something in particular with an specific apt-get/aptitude command. Is there any other

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: I would suggest you run 'aptitude safe-upgrade' first and then try 'aptitude full-upgrade'. Don't worry, aptitude will present all changes to you before applying. If you don't like or understand what you see just copy-paste it here and we'll

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com on 2011-11-12 05:31 -0600): Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: I would suggest you run 'aptitude safe-upgrade' first and then try 'aptitude full-upgrade'. Don't worry, aptitude will present all changes to you before applying. If you don't

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Arno Schuring aelschur...@hotmail.com writes: What does the following show: $ aptitude search ~ahold This should probably give you the list of 135 packages. You can release the held packages by using the same syntax: # aptitude unhold ~ahold Yes it does... thanks for the unhold stuff with

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Jo, 27 oct 11, 15:08:57, Harry Putnam wrote: I noticed this command posted for another recent thread: aptitude search ~ahold I was curious so ran it myself. I was shocked to see quite a bunch of held packages.. 140 to be exact. Are

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 oct 11, 15:08:57, Harry Putnam wrote: I noticed this command posted for another recent thread: aptitude search ~ahold I was curious so ran it myself. I was shocked to see quite a bunch of held packages.. 140 to be exact. Are there any circumstances that would warrant such a

Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I noticed this command posted for another recent thread: aptitude search ~ahold I was curious so ran it myself. I was shocked to see quite a bunch of held packages.. 140 to be exact. Are there any circumstances that would warrant such a high count? I'm running wheezy on 32 bit P4 3.02 Ghz