How to resolve packages being kept back?

[Daniel L. Miller]

Hmm... nobody's asked this yet.

What do you have in /etc/apt/sources.list?  If you have more than one 
version specified (dapper, breezy, etc.), that could be the issue.

Also try doing an "apt-get update", to download the latest indexes.  
Particularly if you're working with dapper, packages can change at any 
time, and your system might be looking for a package version that no 
longer exists at your target server.

John Cradock wrote:
> 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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