On Sunday, July 19, 2020 02:27:24 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, July 19, 2020 01:05:55 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > Now apt-get is bitching because it thinks I'm asking for version 3.0.3 > > but only 3.0.4 stuff is available: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > libalien-wxwidgets-perl : Depends: libwxgtk3.0-dev (< 3.0.3~) but > > > > 3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1 is to be installed > > > > Depends: libwxgtk-media3.0-dev (< 3.0.3~) but > > > > 3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1 is to be installed > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > > WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE BROKEN PACKAGE????????????????????????????
BTW: Just one more comment on misleading language, even though (in my case) apt-get talked about the package to be installed, that package was the one already installed (not "to be installed"). Oh, and maybe I should say that the names of the broken packages are: libwxgtk3.0-dev libwxgtk-media3.0-dev Nothing new below this line. > Anyway, what I had to do, for the package that had the message about the > newer package to be installed, I had to do something like this (may not > have the syntax exactly right, and the first time I ran it, I ran it with > -s just to see what was going to happen): > > apt-get -s install libwxgtk3.0-dev=3.0.3 > > In my case, the message specified an old version in a form like: > 3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1, so I'm not sure the 3.0.3 is specific enough. Or > maybe the equal sign can be replaced with a < or a <= (=<)? > > After I successfully installed the old version of the file that was holding > me back (openssh-client), then I was able to install my desired package > (openssh- server). > > Aside: The funny thing to me (which someone might comment on) -- I > absolutely know that the old version of openssh-client is installed (by > running ssh -V), but I ran apt-get again (after installing openssh-server) > and it tells me that openssh-client is the latest version, which is pretty > much a clear lie. > > But, ok. Somewhere, during my reading / googling before solving the > problem, I came across the word "pin" (or pinned) and I was looking for an > apt-get or other command to find out which packages might be pinned (to > the best of my knowledge, I've never intentionally pinned anything on my > Wheezy installation (which, by the way, is what I was dealing with). > > I'm guessing that someone would describe the situation of the old openssh- > client as being pinned, but does that word ever appear somewhere to > describe the situation? (I mean like, can you run apt-get (or something > else) and get a list of pinned packages with the word "pinned" next to > them?