At Wed, 3 Dec 2025 19:18:49 +0100 Anders Andersson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 8:56â¯PM Chime Hart <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi All: Many times when I cannot grab a package in apt, I run aptitude. > > Quite > > often it will say something like "there are 89 packages but limit is 40" I > > tried looking around for an aptitude config where I can increase or remove > > that > > limit. I am in Debian SID. Thanks so much in advance. > > I have never seen this problem but I couldn't really begin searching because: > 1) What does "grab a package" mean? How do you do that with apt? My guess would be: sudo apt install some-package > 2) Why can't you use apt? What kind of packages fail, and what's the error? I expect that the package in question has an "odd" package name, eg something like some-package-version-gibberish. > 3) What can aptitude do in this case that apt can't? Are you using the > GUI (TUI) or command line? Guessing GUI and using the App Store to find the package by its picture, rather than its full name. > > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
