Any ideas about this? root@imager:/etc/apt# apt-get install aptitude Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: aptitude : Depends: aptitude-common (= 0.6.11-1) but 0.8.7-1 is to be installed Depends: libcwidget3 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.2.0) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. root@imager:/etc/apt# ls -ld preferences ls: cannot access 'preferences': No such file or directory root@imager:/etc/apt# ls -ld preferences.d/* ls: cannot access 'preferences.d/*': No such file or directory No evidence of a hold there. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Message composed and transmitted by software designed to avoid the complication, overhead and vulnerability of antivirus software. 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel: +1 360 639 0202 +1 http://easthope.ca/Peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca