Re: Re: Re: blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-20 Thread Charles E. Blair
Thanks for previous suggestions, and my apologies for violations of user-list etiquette. The output from the "why" command: > Unable to find a reason to install db5.1-util. I don't know what the package db5.1-util does. The "blocked update" led me to imagine that there was some serious bug

Re: Re: blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:37:37AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > OK. run: > > aptitude unhold db5.1-util > apt upgrade > > and see what happens. And he sent me more private email, in which he indicates that it didn't work. My next suggestion is that he try "aptitude why db5.1-util" in the hopes

Re: Re: blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 09:52:03AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 05:51:52PM -0500, Charles E. Blair wrote: > >I am using debian version 8.9. > > > >I have received several "updates available" > > notices that include Berkeley database utilities > > that are described

Re: Re: blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 05:51:52PM -0500, Charles E. Blair wrote: >I am using debian version 8.9. > >I have received several "updates available" > notices that include Berkeley database utilities > that are described as "blocked". > >I just tried aptitude. It says that an upgrade >

Re: Re: blocked update: Berkeley database utitility

2017-09-19 Thread Charles E. Blair
I am using debian version 8.9. I have received several "updates available" notices that include Berkeley database utilities that are described as "blocked". I just tried aptitude. It says that an upgrade of the package db5.1-util from version 5.1.29-5 to 5.1.29-9 is available, but that