apt-get upgrade problem

[Derek Broughton]

Vram wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 10:15 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:32:11PM -0700, Vram wrote:
>> >> How do I fix all these packages being kept back???
>> > 
>> > Ordinarily Ubuntu keeps packages back because upgrading them
>> > would require installing new packages or deleting old ones.
>> > See what happens if you do
>> > 
>> > sudo apt-get install [package]
>> > 
>> > where [package] is one of the packages that Ubuntu said it
>> > was holding back.
>> > 
>> > I *believe* that
>> > 
>> > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>> > 
>> > will also upgrade all the packages that have been held back.
>> > Though be careful, because sometimes it may delete packages
>> > that you actually want.
>> 
>> Have you ever actually seen this? It generally happens with b0rked
>> installs
>> from test (or even non-official) repos.  It shouldn't happen to someone
>> who's dist-upgrading thee official stable packages.  At this point
>> practically the _only_ solution available to Vram is a dist-upgrade.
> 
> I tried dist-upgrade and it just says...   HELD back...
> 
> See my older post..

D**n!  You did say that, didn't you :-)  

What repo is your sources.list currently pointing to?  You've not made it
clear.

When did you last do apt-get update?
-- 
derek