aptitude update output

auser · 06-02-2013, 06:56 PM

I ran aptitude and it had the following output:
Current status: 5 updates [+5], 12997 new [+8].

I applied the updates using aptitude safe-upgrade and it installed the 5 updates. What about the +8 12997 updates?

evo2 · 06-02-2013, 07:53 PM

Hi,

it's been some years since I've used aptitude (apt-get is more to my liking and is the recommended on my distro), so I don't remember exactly how to interpret that output. However I can think of a couple of reasons:

- You have some packages on hold. To check you can run:

Code:

aptitude search "~ahold" | grep "^.h"

- You need to do a "aptitude full-upgrade" (new packages to install)

Cheers,

Evo2.