mystery package

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 01:48:21PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> Aptitude update and dist-upgrade are showing me 1 package not upgraded
> but no name or other clues
> How do I find out what it's not upgrading and why ??

apt-get upgrade shows you which packages are held back from being
upgraded.  (I'm rather surprised that aptitude doesn't.)

You can often see the reason when you try to force apt-get to upgrade
that package with apt-get install $packagename; it'll tell you what
missing dependencies prevent it from being upgraded.  (Or alternatively
find an upgrade path that removes 90% of your installed system packages,
at which point you'll be happy to answer 'no thanks' at the confirmation
prompt.)

I haven't used aptitude much, but it works on the same package data as
apt-get.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
31337 is a prime number, go figure...
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