Why does apt 'keep back' packages for gaim and grip?
 

Using RedHat 9 (2.4.20-8)

[root@localhost stuff]# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
LPRng bash cups cups-libs ethereal evolution foomatic ghostscript glibc
glibc-common glibc-devel gnupg gtkhtml hpijs kdebase kdegraphics kdelibs
krb5-devel krb5-libs mutt nfs-utils nscd openssl openssl-devel printman
redhat-config-date redhat-config-printer redhat-config-printer-gui samba
samba-client samba-common sendmail sendmail-cf tcpdump unzip xinetd xpdf
The following packages have been kept back
gaim grip
37 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 104MB of archives.
After unpacking 847kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Why is apt keeping back packages for gaim and grip? Should I do something concerning this? I know gaim is an IM (correct?) but don't know anything about grip.

TIA

you might already have the latest version(s) available from the url's in your sources list. or installing gaim and grip will cause dependancies that can't be resolved from the files on the sources.list servers. either way, it's not a problem. you can allways do a apt-get update gaim later.

duh, thats not the right command, see below

Thanks for the answer.

I did this and got this message. Is that a problem?

[root@localhost servant]# apt-get update gaim
E: Sources list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gaim.list doesn't exist

TIA

try apt-get install gaim and see what you get

That did the trick.

[root@localhost servant]# apt-get install gaim
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gtkspell
The following packages will be upgraded
gaim
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gtkspell
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 2053kB of archives.
After unpacking 1487kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms gtkspell 2.0.4-fr3 [21.6kB]
Get:2 http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386/freshrpms gaim 1:0.65-1.fr [2031kB]
Fetched 2053kB in 33s (60.4kB/s)
Executing RPM (-Uvh)...
warning: /var/cache/apt/archives/gtkspell_2.0.4-fr3_i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:gtkspell ########################################### [ 50%]
2:gaim ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost servant]#

It worked for grip, too!

Thanks!