On 2017-06-25, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu 22 Jun 2017 at 19:44:27 (+0000), Curt wrote: >> On 2017-06-22, Mike McClain <mike.junk...@att.net> wrote: >> > >> > Rather than telling me why FF was held back it just went ahead and >> > installed it. >> > >> >> Is that the complete description of what you observed? You're not >> leaving anything out, are you? >> >> -- >> "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on >> the >> far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." > > It doesn't seem likely that any of those would appear.
What? > I think perhaps you're soliciting remarks re "It should tell you why > it's held back." Is that going to happen when you install rather than > upgrade? I thought it would take "install" as an instruction to include > all the dependencies automatically (and mark them so). No, it is not automatic. For instance in my case, on Wheezy, apt held firefox-esr back because it will not install an extra package unless explicitly given permission to do so. This was revealed when I executed the 'apt-get install firefox-esr' command, at which point apt asked me to reply yes or no to the installation of a new package (the name of which escapes me) and the updating of the package firefox-esr. Because of the pedagogical interest of the thing, for those who come after us, for posterity's sake, I wanted the OP to give us a complete description of what occurred, rather than a misleading one (for we are left wondering why FF was held back in the first place, if an 'apt-get install' simply "went ahead and installed it." > Cheers, > David. > > -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs. Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.
