dpkg-unhold(8)

✨ NAME ✨

dpkg-unhold — mark held packages for installation 💖

Ok bestie, real talk, it's the dpkg-unhold page from the dpkg suite, and it's giving "tiny tool, big opinions." Let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dpkg-unhold [package...]

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🚨 WARNING 🚨

This command is deprecated, and will be removed during in Debian forky 😭 please use dpkg --set-selections or apt-mark instead. Like, actually. Don't get attached. It's not staying. 💀

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

dpkg-unhold marks package(s) to be installed. That's the whole job. That's the vibe. ✨

How does it pull that off? It runs dpkg --set-selections and pipes in the package name(s) followed by install. Sneaky little pipeline moment, we love to see it 🔥

NOTE: this program does not install, remove, or purge any package. It ONLY sets the status of the package. The actual removal or purging happens the next time dselect, apt-get, aptitude, etc. are run. So it's the messenger, not the main character 👑

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🐛 BUGS 🐛

The name is a little bit of a misnomer, ngl 🙈 — it marks the package for installation. So it effectively "unholds" the package if it is held, but it will also cause dselect/apt/etc to install it if it wasn't already installed. Two-for-one behaviour, no cap. Not a bug you can file, just a bug in the naming department. 💀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• dpkg(1)
• apt-mark(8)
• dpkg-hold(1)
• dpkg-remove(1)
• dpkg-purge(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this is dpkg-unhold(8) from the dpkg suite, version 1.17, dated 2024-11-25 — slay, go mark some packages, just maybe use apt-mark while you still can 💜✨