Hi List,
Can someone point me towards information regarding why apt-get will
sometimes say certain packages have been kept back and how i may
resolve the troubles: (hope this isn't too much information)
An example of the trouble:
10:35am~$ su
Password:
jereme:/home/jereme# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
gedit gnome-utils gnumeric
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not
upgraded.
jereme:/home/jereme#
I first do apt-get update, then I usually do a dry run of the
upgrade with `-s', after that, I am usually good to go. I
only found one post in the archive and it said this was do to
"dependency problems", it suggested using `-f' to fix the
problem. After looking through the info node, i think i can
only use --fix-broken with install and remove.
I then tried `apt-get -f install gnumeric -s' (even though it
is installed already) This said I needed to install a bunch of
stuff:
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
libgal3 libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint11 libole2-0
libunicode0
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-print
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgal3 libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint11 libole2-0
libunicode0
1 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Inst libunicode0
Inst libgal3
Inst libgnomeprint-bin []
Inst libgnomeprint-data []
Inst gnumeric []
Remv gnome-print []
Inst libgnomeprint11 []
Inst libole2-0
Conf libunicode0
Conf libgal3
Conf libgnomeprint-bin
Conf libgnomeprint-data
Conf gnumeric
Conf libgnomeprint11
Conf libole2-0
So i am left with the impression that:
I installed gnumeric, (for example) at a time when all
dependencies were met, now I cannot upgrade because the newest
version requires me to remove/install other packages that are
already installed.
It is at this point that i am left wondering when will apt
auto-magically fix these probelms and when does it decide not to,
what should i be doing? My assumption would be to manually do
`apt-get -f install' for the three already installed packages,
gedit, gnome-utils and gnumeric and then try a fresh upgrade,
which should then run smoother?
Hope one of you gurus can point me towards info that will help me
iron this out. Thanks for the help! Hope my explanation was
clear enough.
Sincerely,
jereme
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