Why are packages being held back

[Douglas Phillipson]

Terence Simpson wrote:
> Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>> When doing apt-get upgrade I get the message:
>>
>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>   hal istanbul
>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
>>
>> Why is this happening?  Are these possibly broken packages or something?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Doug P
>>
>>   
> Whenever the upgrade of a package requires the installation/removal of 
> another package it's "held back" when you run apt-get upgrade. The way 
> to get it to work is to run apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> Terence
> 
> 

Thanks, yours was the best answer...  It worked.

Doug P