Re: apt-get upgrade problem

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: apt-get upgrade problem
Date	2017-06-25 11:10 +0200
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On 2017-06-25, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 22 Jun 2017 at 19:44:27 (+0000), Curt wrote:
>> On 2017-06-22, Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Rather than telling me why FF was held back it just went ahead and
>> > installed it.
>> >
>> 
>> Is that the complete description of what you observed? You're not
>> leaving anything out, are you? 
>> 
>> -- 
>> "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."
>
> It doesn't seem likely that any of those would appear.

What?

> I think perhaps you're soliciting remarks re "It should tell you why
> it's held back." Is that going to happen when you install rather than
> upgrade? I thought it would take "install" as an instruction to include
> all the dependencies automatically (and mark them so).

No, it is not automatic. For instance in my case, on Wheezy, apt held
firefox-esr back because it will not install an extra package unless
explicitly given permission to do so. This was revealed when I
executed the 'apt-get install firefox-esr' command, at which point apt
asked me to reply yes or no to the installation of a new package (the
name of which escapes me) and the updating of the package firefox-esr.

Because of the pedagogical interest of the thing, for those who come
after us, for posterity's sake, I wanted the OP to give us a complete
description of what occurred, rather than a misleading one (for we are
left wondering why FF was held back in the first place, if an 'apt-get
install' simply "went ahead and installed it."

> Cheers,
> David.
>
>


-- 
"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.

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apt-get upgrade problem Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net> - 2017-06-22 01:40 +0200
  Re: apt-get upgrade problem Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2017-06-22 01:50 +0200
    Re: apt-get upgrade problem Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-22 09:40 +0200
    Re: apt-get upgrade problem Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net> - 2017-06-22 21:20 +0200
      Re: apt-get upgrade problem Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-22 21:50 +0200
        Re: apt-get upgrade problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-25 02:40 +0200
          Re: apt-get upgrade problem Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-25 11:10 +0200
            Re: apt-get upgrade problem Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-26 15:00 +0200
              Re: apt-get upgrade problem Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-26 17:20 +0200
  Re: apt-get upgrade problem Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-06-22 03:30 +0200
  Re: apt-get upgrade problem davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-06-22 05:20 +0200
  Re: apt-get upgrade problem deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-06-22 08:40 +0200

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