On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:12:56PM -0500, Amy Tanner wrote: > General apt question: when a package is 'held back', what can you do > to determine why? I tend to go for brute force in this situation: apt-get install heldpkg Usually, it's held back either because other packages would have to be removed due to conflicts or because the package's dependencies cannot be satisfied. Explicitly telling apt to upgrade the package will cause it to tell you what else would have to be done to make the upgrade. (The one time this could cause problems is when the held package was manually placed on hold and is otherwise upgradable, in which case a quick ^C as soon as you see the new version being downloaded will prevent the update.) -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss