Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Arno Schuring writes: > What does the following show: > $ aptitude search ~ahold > > This should probably give you the list of 135 packages. You can release > the held packages by using the same syntax: > # aptitude unhold ~ahold Yes it does... thanks for the unhold stuff with aptitude [...] Sn

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com on 2011-11-12 05:31 -0600): > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > I would suggest you run 'aptitude safe-upgrade' first and then try > > 'aptitude full-upgrade'. Don't worry, aptitude will present all > > changes to you before applying. If you don't like or understand >

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei POPESCU writes: > I would suggest you run 'aptitude safe-upgrade' first and then try > 'aptitude full-upgrade'. Don't worry, aptitude will present all changes > to you before applying. If you don't like or understand what you see > just copy-paste it here and we'll have a look. It happ

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 nov 11, 04:56:08, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > What are you using for updates, just the Update Manager or > > apt-get/aptitude? > > I've actually used both on occasion. Are you suggesting I should run > something in particular with an specific apt-get/aptitude command. > > Is there any

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Jo, 27 oct 11, 15:08:57, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I noticed this command posted for another recent thread: >>aptitude search ~ahold >> >> I was curious so ran it myself. I was shocked to see quite a bunch of >> held packages.. 140 to be exact. Are there any circum

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 oct 11, 15:08:57, Harry Putnam wrote: > I noticed this command posted for another recent thread: >aptitude search ~ahold > > I was curious so ran it myself. I was shocked to see quite a bunch of > held packages.. 140 to be exact. Are there any circumstances that > would warrant suc

Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I noticed this command posted for another recent thread: aptitude search ~ahold I was curious so ran it myself. I was shocked to see quite a bunch of held packages.. 140 to be exact. Are there any circumstances that would warrant such a high count? I'm running wheezy on 32 bit P4 3.02 Ghz an