Re: apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What does it mean?

2000-10-17 Thread Moritz Schulte
Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then > every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me: [...] > The following packages have been kept back > task-helix-gnome > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 t

RE: apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What

2000-10-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
> to find out the cause of your problems, do a 'apt-get install > task-helix-gnome', that should tell you why it is being held back. Yup, that did the trick. gaim was the offender, I believe its name was changed to gaim-gnome. apt removed gaim and installed gaim-gnome. Everything ok now. Thanks

Re: apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What does it mean?

2000-10-17 Thread John Travis
Mario Vukelic wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then > every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me: > > "host:/home/mario# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packa

RE: apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What

2000-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > What does "kept back" mean /exactly/? Can I "dpkg --purge > task-helix-gnome" safely? My understanding is that it isn't needed after > it has done it's duty of selecting all gnome packages that depend on it. > Am I right? > it means that apt wants to update it, but can not due to a depends/

apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What does it mean?

2000-10-17 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me: "host:/home/mario# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back task-helix-gnome

Re: apt-get "the following packages have been kept back"

1999-09-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Sep, Seth R Arnold wrote about "apt-get "the following packages have been kept back"" > Hello there. > > Can someone explain to me what this message means? :) > > amidala:/var# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Depende

apt-get "the following packages have been kept back"

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hello there. Can someone explain to me what this message means? :) amidala:/var# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back gimp1.1 login python-base python-tk shellutils wmaker 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed