Can't update

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Sat Feb 10 00:23:36 UTC 2007


"OOzy Pal" <oozypal at gmail.com> 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.

Most likely that's because "update" doesn't remove or install new
packages  but the update requires one of this actions. Use
"dist-upgrade" instead of "upgrade".


   Florian
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