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Won't upgrade from PPA

Asked by VanillaMozilla

I'm trying to upgrade Ekiga from 3.2.5 to 3.2.6, using a PPA.

The procedure is described here: https://launchpad.net/~sevmek/+archive/ekiga-released . The described procedure uses aptitude instead of apt (which may not be completely compatible. Also, I wasn't so sure about upgrading the entire computer, since it's only one program I want. So I took a manual approach.

The PPA has been added to Software Sources and authenticated. To upgrade I typed the following, which failed.

sudo apt-get update [password entered]
sudo apt-get upgrade ekiga

Output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  ekiga
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Did I do something wrong? And what should I do?

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VanillaMozilla (vanillamozilla) said : 		#1

Heck, I got the same error with
sudo apt-get upgrade

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

You can use apt and aptitude interchangably, they both do pretty much the same stuff.

The package has been kept back because the ekiga package may have been published but the dependencies for it have not been published yet so the package will be held back until they are met

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VanillaMozilla (vanillamozilla) said : 		#3

Thanks. I guess there's no way this program is going to get working, since the current version is completely busted.

This leaves Ubuntu without a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) program. Do you know if this is being fixed, or do they just depend on the four winds to get working programs?

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Yannick Defais (sevmek) said : 		#4

Hi,

What is the version of ubuntu?

Best regards,
Yannick

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VanillaMozilla (vanillamozilla) said : 		#5

Karmic

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

try:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get --reinstall install ekiga

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VanillaMozilla (vanillamozilla) said : 		#7

Thanks. That worked. It's possible that ekiga was running at the time I tried to update it. I noticed today that sometimes only the UI terminates, leaving a process running. Or maybe it failed for some other reason.

The side effect is that it also updated libpt and libopal. I don't know who owns those, but the program didn't work, and I promptly undid this upgrade. I hope my system is still intact.

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VanillaMozilla (vanillamozilla) said : 		#8

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.