Many thanks Daniel, Clearly correct & I have installed all the held packages & they all had additional packages to install.
Regards Steve On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:42:47AM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 05:48, steve downes wrote: > > Apt-get upgrade is holding back a number of packages without giving a > > reason. It seems to have them on hold & a few days later it still has > > them on hold. > > > > Had a look in logs etc & cant find any reason. Anybody know why & > > ideally what I can do about it. > > > > Packages are > > > > > > abiword afterstep gettext gimp1.2 initrd-tool libwine rpm wine > > scrollkeeper xpdf > > My understanding is that packages are held back if updating requires > them to install additional packages - that is, a package that wasn't > required when the app was originally installed is now required. You can > fix it by apt-get installing the packages again. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
