held back

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

> why does an upgrade hold back some packages?

Some times packages are kept back because it may cause some potential
problems if updated.

What packages were held back?

You could try to do manually like "apt-get update PACKAGE-NAME-HERE".

For example, when the kbd package was kept back, I ran "apt-get update
kbd". It removed kbd-data and installed new kbd and console-data packages.
I never noticed any problems.

Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/

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