[PlanetCCRMA] Other Apt problems

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Nov 24 15:50:02 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:37, William M. Quarles wrote:
> William M. Quarles wrote:
> > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 01:01, William M. Quarles wrote:
> >>>>> I keep getting this when using apt-get upgrade:
> >>>
> >>> The following packages have been kept back
> >>>   fftw3 lilypond specimen swh-plugins
> >>>
> >>> Why is that?
> >>
> >> As noted later in the thread you should try with dist-upgrade. If you
> >> want to know what the conflicts are that are holding back the packages
> >> you can apt-get install them separately to see what is the conflict in
> >> each case. From that information we can try to fix things (if
> >> dist-upgrade does not solve the issue - dist-upgrade installs any
> >> additional packages needed, a plain upgrade does not)...
> > 
> > Thanks guys, I'll try that next time.  For now, I'm completely updated, 
> > so I won't mess with it.
> 
> Well, I decided to see if it would make a difference with fftw3, and I get:
> 
> [root@resistance root]# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
>    fftw3
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 1 not upgraded.
> 
> ?

Could you try with:
  apt-get install fftw3
That should point out the conflict that is keeping it from installing. 
-- Fernando