What causes packages not to be updated?

[James Takac]

On Monday 17 September 2007 00:08:57 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Why would apt-get not update a package that I explicitly ask it to?
> How can I check what is wrong?
>
> ubuntu at ubuntu-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
> Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release.gpg [191B]
> ... snip ...
> Fetched 3B in 2s (1B/s)
> Reading package lists... Done
> ubuntu at ubuntu-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade digikam
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   digikam
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> ubuntu at ubuntu-desktop:~$
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
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Hi Dotan

The possibility that there were no updates for the particular packages at the 
time might be what's happening

James