[Wolves] apt-get upgrade

Old Dan dan at dannyboy.dnsalias.org
Wed May 12 15:45:11 BST 2004


fizzy wrote:
> Second question of the day...
> 
> When I do an apt-get upgrade I get...
> 
> root at lucky:~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   iproute libdbi-perl libgtk2.0-0 libldap2 lilo mutt
> ntfstools testdisk unarj
>   vim xawtv-plugins
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not
> upgraded.
> 
> I don't won't those packages keeping back. I guess
> this /yet another/ thing that knoppix has decided to
> do for me, how do I stop it doing it?

Nope.  My completely pure Debian boxen do it too, I /think/ Debian does 
that because those packages have new dependencies, at least that /seems/ 
to be the case IME.

I could be talking rubbish, of course... :)

Usually if you just apt-get install them it does the trick.

-- 
Dan




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