Aptitude to the rescue!
I upgraded my home server to Ubuntu’s latest release, Edgy Eft, about a week ago. Everything went fine, as expected, except one issue: 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. After a quick Google search, I found this forum post, which advised to use the aptitude program. Using aptitude took some getting used to, but after applying updates with it, my package dependency issues were resolved! Thanks goes to Ziox, the ubuntuforums.org member that recommended aptitude.
1 comment November 7th, 2006