Forgotten held package

Nishtya · 01-03-2008, 02:02 PM

A few weeks ago I had something break on an upgrade (Sid, nothing unusual about that). So I removed the misbehaving offender, reinstalled an older version and held the package. I can no longer remember what I held and unfortunately have only a vague recollection of a command to list held packages. Could somebody jog my memory on how to get that list?

Dutch Master · 01-03-2008, 03:25 PM

I've held a package too and when I update my system it always shows up in aptitude as "upgradeable but held at current state".

makuyl · 01-04-2008, 08:00 AM

For instance this will show held packages: dpkg -l|grep ^h

Nishtya · 01-04-2008, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by makuyl

For instance this will show held packages: dpkg -l|grep ^h

thank you, that's it! explains why I couldn't find it when I hit the man pages...for apt-get