Aptitude to the rescue!
November 7th, 2006
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.
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1. treycranson | November 8th, 2006 at 7:07 am
I wonder if there is a GUI version of aptitude out there. I’m sure there is. Anyway… nice find.
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