[root@anja:~]# aptitude install odbcinst1debian1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: libct1 libphp-adodb libpq3 php4-odbc php4-pgsql php4-snmp php4-sybase rrdtool snmp unixodbc The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: ca-certificates libct3 libdb4.4 libpq4 libreadline5 libsnmp9 libssl0.9.8 libsysfs2 readline-common The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: cacti libapache2-mod-php4 odbcinst1 php4-mysql phpmyadmin [cut] If I do an aptitude dist-upgrade: [root@anja:~]# aptitude dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed [root@anja:~]#