The following packages have been kept back:

[Ruben Laban]

On Friday 31 July 2009 at 11:34 (CET), Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Often I get the message that some packages have been kept back when
> updating:
>
> jaunty2 at laptop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
> linux-restricted-modules-generic
>
> What causes that?

New kernel with a higher ABI will be a new package (not a newer version of an 
existing package). apt-get upgrade doesn't install new packages, apt-get 
dist-upgrade does (when needed).

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Regards,

Ruben Laban
Systems and Network Administrator
ISM eCompany