updates to 8.04

Nigel Henry cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr
Sun Dec 28 15:36:02 UTC 2008


On Sunday 28 December 2008 16:11, Verde Denim wrote:
> I had a 7.10 server that I brought back online. After seeing apt fail to
> get any of the feisty links in sources.list (a dist-upgrade didn't work
> either), I changed the targets in sources.list from feisty to hardy and
> then ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.
> The upgrade seemed to run ok, but I notice that 40 packages were held back,
> including SSH, apt, dpkg, libsasl, and a number of others.
>
> Did I bork my installation?
> If not, is there a way to install these packges and get the system back in
> sync ?
>
> Thanks for your help...
>
> Jack

Hi Jack.

It's probably worth running apt-get dist-upgrade again. You may find it will 
pull in the held back packages.

Nigel.




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