On 2017-06-25, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My question is that since the upgrade chromium is held back from > upgrading, and in this new world I don't know how to find out why. In > aptitude I would have done aptitude why-not chromium and it would most > likely have told me something useful about its dependencies. How can I > get apt to do similar? Or what tool should I use? >
'apt-get install <package>' will tell you why a package is being held back (or, as discussed in another thread, will ask your permission to install an extra package--or packages--in order to meet its dependencies). -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs. Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.