Packages have been kept back -- What to do?

[Dave Carrigan]

On Thursday 29 June 2006 19:37, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> Why have these packages been kept back?
> What does kept back mean?
> How do I fix it?
>
> kip at Red:~ $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> Password:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Calculating upgrade...Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   gdk-imlib1 libkrb5-17-heimdal libopenal0 moagg
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
>
> I get this type of error whenever I do a security update. The message
> says do sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to fix it. As you can see it does not
> fix the problem.

Do apt-get install gdk-imlib1. It should tell you exactly why it can't install 
it. Do the same for the other packages.

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