Can't update

Clive Menzies clive at clivemenzies.co.uk
Fri Feb 9 15:04:38 UTC 2007


On (09/02/07 15:42), OOzy Pal wrote:
> I am trying to update doing
> 
> sudo aptitute upgrade
> 
> but I am getting the following msg
> 
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> Reading extended state information...
> Initializing package states...
> Building tag database...
> The following packages have been automatically kept back:
>   linux-image-generic linux-restricted-modules-generic
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   linux-headers-generic
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> 
> I tried synaptic and adept with no help too.

They're being held back probably because of a dependency problem - you
don't really want to install them.  Aptitude and synaptic are stopping
you installing something which will break your system - be happy :)

Regards

Clive

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