On Thursday 23 October 2008 08:25:04 JoeHill wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 10/22/08 23:34, JoeHill wrote: > > > JoeHill wrote: > > >> Question is, is there some way to find out more info on what packages > > >> are preventing HAL from being installed? Or _is_ that the question...? > > >> Not sure. > > > > > > ...forgot to mention, I did run the 'smart upgrade', but I did not see > > > what the 'proposed removals' were, which is why I'm concerned. > > > > This is why I never use synaptics, but stick with apt-get, the tool > > that God Intended Us To Use. > > > > Besides, it will explicitly tell you what the problem packages are. > > node1:/home/joehill# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages have been kept back: > hal > The following packages will be upgraded: > djvulibre-desktop libapr1 libaudio-dev libaudio2 libdjvulibre21 > libenchant1c2a libhal-dev libhal-storage1 libhal1 libmono-cairo1.0-cil > libmono-corlib1.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-data-tds1.0-cil > libmono-data-tds2.0-cil libmono-i18n1.0-cil libmono-i18n2.0-cil > libmono-security1.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil > libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-sqlite2.0-cil libmono-system-data1.0-cil > libmono-system-data2.0-cil libmono-system-web1.0-cil > libmono-system-web2.0-cil libmono-system1.0-cil libmono-system2.0-cil > libmono0 libmono1.0-cil libmono2.0-cil libpci3 libperl5.10 libpq5 > mono-common mono-gac mono-jit mono-runtime pciutils perl perl-base > perl-doc perl-modules screenlets tzdata > 44 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > > I'll accept that you're right about apt-get in general, but it's still not > telling me why hal is being held back. > > I didn't see anything in the manpage to give me more verbose information. > I'm not saying it's not there, just that I didn't see it ;) > > -- > Joe
I dont want to start a church war, but try try aptitude why-not <package> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
