apt is pretty smart about automatically resolving dependencies,
but there are some situations that simply cannot be handled
automatically.
Here's what I usually do:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
And then for cases like yours, where packages have been kept
back, I add them a few at a time, to determine the source of
apt's confusion. I your case, I would do:
apt-get install ae cpp cvs distributed-net
if apt complains about that combination, I would fall back,
one package at a time, until apt is successful:
apt-get install ae cpp cvs
<apt complaint>
apt-get install ae cpp
<apt complaint>
apt-get install ae
<well, this SHOULD always work, unless you've been
manually forcing thinks in dpkg!>
Repeat until everything is up to date.
HTH,
D
* On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:57:25PM -0700, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> What does this mean:
>
> [rutledge@electron][11:54:06pm] apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> ae cpp cvs distributed-net g++ gcc gs jdk1.1 jdk1.1-dev kbd lesstifg libc6
> libc6-dev libforms-dev locales lynx nedit netstd nfs-server postgresql
> slang1 sysvinit tin tya urlview util-linux vncserver whiptail xmysqladmin
> xntp3
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
>
> Now that 2.2 is released, and I have my /etc/apt/sources.list pointing
> only to potato, this shouldn't be happening anymore should it?
>
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