How to find out why packages are "held back"

[John L Fjellstad]

Markus Schönhaber <ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de> writes:

> Generally, packages are kept back if updating them would require other
> packages to be installed/uninstalled. Do something like
> aptitude -s dist-upgrade
> to see what would be done additionally on updating the above packages.

FYI, dist-upgrade has been renamed to full-upgrade (upgrade has been
renamed to safe-upgrade).  Ubuntu have been using the new name for the
options for awhile now (at least since Gibbon)


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