On 2017-06-28, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > >> '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's less risky to add the -s switch and just be a user, thus:
I wasn't aware of that. > $ apt-get -s install <package> However: curty@einstein:~$ apt-get -s install bzflag NOTE: This is only a simulation! apt-get needs root privileges for real execution. Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated, so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation! I suppose 'locking is deactivated, so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!" might mean on a multi-user system on which the administrator is fiddling with a package manager concurrently, the output of your command might or might not reflect reality. >>>> [Re: apt-get upgrade problem] >>> What? > Attached… So you were facetiously applying my query to the Woolf signature quote (which I don't see and didn't think anybody was seeing and assumed was being snipped by the list master along with all the other conformingly formatted signatures). > Cheers, > David. > -- “Yeah yeah.” --Sidney Morgenbesser's retort to a speaker who said that although there are many cases in which two negatives make a positive, he knew of no case in which two positives made a negative.