On 8/10/21, Jim Popovitch <j...@k4vqc.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-08-10 at 18:59 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>
>> The OP claimed they have nothing pinned, but presented no evidence to
>> support this claim.  Perhaps they thought that because they didn't
>> explicitly *pin* anything themselves, there must not be anything
>> pinned on their system.  So why bother looking?
>>
>> They should at least look.
>
> I did.
>
>>
>> grep -ri pin /etc/apt
>
> That's exactly how I did look.


What about something that didn't fully upgrade for whatever reason? I
haven't encountered that  in a few weeks so I'd already forgotten
whether it was "apt(-get)" or "dpkg". Quick search brought up this
[0]:

"dpkg --configure -a"   configure all partially installed packages

If that has already been tried, my apologies.

[0] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html
See under "2.4.1. Advanced package management operations with commandline"

Cindy :)
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