On Monday 19 January 2015 05:30:40 Rusi Mody wrote: > On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 10:50:04 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Running testing > > > > While trying to upgrade, listbugs was giving a bunch of > > critical/grave errors. > > > > Ran > > $ aptitude hold > > > > on all these packages then did upgrade. > > > > One of these packages was dpkg > > > > Now after upgrade tried running > > aptitude unhold dpkg > > > > However still... > > > > synaptic shows it as 1.17.13 both installed and latest > > and no upgradation possible > > > > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/dpkg > > shows it as 1.17.23 > > Yeah synaptic and aptitude (and dpkg) dont mix too well > especially wrt pinning > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific- >package > > However cant find dpkg in aptitude(!!) > [Yeah I am not very adept at aptitude curses-gui] > Can only see > dpkg:i386 > and > dpkg-repack
$ aptitude search dpkg Any luck? # aptitude update $ aptitude search dpkg any luck? Then I'd look at your sources.list. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501190925.30033.lisi.re...@gmail.com