Comment 36 for bug 971761

Daniel Ejsing-Duun (zilvador) wrote:
> Now when talking about my case I should mentioned that apt-get
> at the same time states that I have held broken packages.

This message is sometimes incorrect.

> When asking Synaptic though I neither have held nor broken packages

Synaptic does not share precisely the same concept of held packages as
apt [bug 42178]. To confirm whether you actually do have held
packages:

$ apt-mark showholds
wget

which could be unheld with:

$ sudo apt-mark unhold wget