How to resolve packages being kept back?

[John Cradock]

I'll try this. Thanks.

On 2/4/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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