How to resolve packages being kept back?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 2/4/06, John Cradock <kananga at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know there are various reasons why apt will indicate that "packages
> have been kept back," but what is the best way to resolve this, so
> that all updates are applied? Any suggestion and/or advice is
> appreciated.

using apt-get, you need to do a "apt-get dist-upgrade" in addition of
doing a "apt-get upgrade".  I'm guessing that they are kept back
because they need to install additional packages, something an apt-get
upgrade will not do (it only upgrades your current packages).


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Daniel Robitaille