On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:26:32AM -0400, Charles <bea...@videotron.ca> was heard to say: > I'm running Debian testing --- in Synaptic I have a bunch of > packages which are in the "local or obsolete category". Some have > been locally installed...but most are those I had to re-install after > a problem sometime ago. I assume because they are there > they will not be updated. Can I change this in Aptitude? I have > read the man and Googled but can't seem to find the commands I need
The local or obsolete category in both aptitude and synaptic consists of packages that are installed on your system but aren't available from any of the archives you have listed in /etc/apt/sources.list. Usually this is because they were removed from the archive after you installed them, but it could also come about if you removed a repository line from sources.list after installing a package. The only ways you can remove the packages from that category are to (a) make them available again (if you installed them from some repository that's not present in sources.list any more), (b) create a dummy repository and put them in it, then add that repository to sources.list, or (c) remove the packages from your system (assuming you don't need them, of course). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
