apt-get upgrade problem
Vram
lamsokvr at xprt.net
Wed Oct 26 15:14:22 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:59 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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
>
>
/etc/apt/sources.list follows..
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as
to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
security
## team.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
####
# added this for pine
deb http://src.braincells.com/debian woody/
deb-src http://src.braincells.com/debian woody/
#Debian security updates
deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security sarge/updates main contrib
non-free
deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
contrib non-free
##################### end
I think pretty plain list...
And I update and upgrade .. At least every 2nd or 3rd day
Vram
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