Aptitude to the rescue!
I upgraded my home server to Ubuntu’s latest release, Edgy Eft, about a week ago.┬á Everything went fine, as expected, except one issue:┬á every time I ran apt-get dist-upgrade, it would say that a bunch of python packages and the hpjis package were being held back.┬á After a quick Google search, I found this forum post, which advised to use the aptitude program.┬á Using aptitude took some getting used to, but after applying updates with it, my package dependency issues were resolved!┬á Thanks goes to Ziox, the ubuntuforums.org member that recommended aptitude.
1 comment November 7th, 2006