[vox-tech] Apt Question

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Wed Aug 31 10:25:54 PDT 2005


On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:11:59AM -0700, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> When I do "apt-upgrade" now there is a message that alsa-base and alsa-utils 
> have been kept back.  Why have they been kept back?  
> 
> Is it because alsa needs an upgrade of a dependency so that if the packages 
> alsa is dependent upon are upgraded in the future, then alsa will be upgraded
> later?

If I understand correctly, this is due to the fact that these packages now
have new dependencies, and I think apt doesn't want to install any new
stuff when you go to upgrade.

Try doing an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and see if that looks like the case.
Good luck!

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-bill!
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