How to resolve packages being kept back?

[paul cooke]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 06:51, Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> John Cradock 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.
>
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>

doesn't do it...

|paulc at broken-drum:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
|Password:
|Reading package lists... Done
|Building dependency tree... Done
|Calculating upgrade... Done
|The following packages have been kept back:
|  ffmpeg ibuild kdegraphics libmjpegtools0 mplayer-386 transcode
|0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

it's the kdegraphics that's been bugging me...