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JoeHill wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote:
>>> JoeHill wrote:
>>>
>>>> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages are
>>>> preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? Not
>>>> sure.
>>> ...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see what
>>> the 'proposed removals' were, which is why I'm concerned.
>> This is why I never use synaptics, but stick with apt-get, the tool
>> that God Intended Us To Use.
>>
>> Besides, it will explicitly tell you what the problem packages are.
>
> node1:/home/joehill# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
> hal
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> djvulibre-desktop libapr1 libaudio-dev libaudio2 libdjvulibre21
> libenchant1c2a libhal-dev libhal-storage1 libhal1 libmono-cairo1.0-cil
> libmono-corlib1.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-data-tds1.0-cil
> libmono-data-tds2.0-cil libmono-i18n1.0-cil libmono-i18n2.0-cil
> libmono-security1.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil
> libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-sqlite2.0-cil libmono-system-data1.0-cil
> libmono-system-data2.0-cil libmono-system-web1.0-cil
> libmono-system-web2.0-cil libmono-system1.0-cil libmono-system2.0-cil
> libmono0 libmono1.0-cil libmono2.0-cil libpci3 libperl5.10 libpq5
> mono-common mono-gac mono-jit mono-runtime pciutils perl perl-base perl-doc
> perl-modules screenlets tzdata
> 44 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>
> I'll accept that you're right about apt-get in general, but it's still not
> telling me why hal is being held back.
>
> I didn't see anything in the manpage to give me more verbose information. I'm
> not saying it's not there, just that I didn't see it ;)
>
I think you'll find
apt-get dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade, aptitude changed as of lenny, i
dunno what apt-get is doing)
Will give you the info you're looking for, basically "upgrade" will do
minor updates, security fixes, {dist,full}-upgrade will upgrade
completely, potentially breaking everything.
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