update manager

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:25:07 +0100
Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:

> Since changing to Dapper, whenever I run update manager I get the
> following message:-
> 
> The following updates will be skipped
> 
> gdk-imlib1
> libkrb5-17-heimdal
> libopenal0
> 
> Could someone please tell me why this happens and, if these items are
> not necessary for my system, how do I stop this message reappearing.

Try "smart upgrade" in Synaptic, or "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"

It may be that there are new/replacement packages - if so the normal
upgrade will skip them. For instance, apt wanyed to hold my kernel
2.6.15-23 when -25 was available: -  "dist-upgrade" pulled in the new
kernel.

Another approach, if that fails, is to run "sudo apt-get -f install " to
see if the system needs to uninstall/ reinstall conflicting packages.

Peter