What does the following apt-get response mean?

[Matthias Andersson]

On 12/01/2010 10:00 AM, John Conover wrote:
> Dotan Cohen writes:
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 09:14, John Conover <conover at rahul.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> What does the following apt-get response mean?
>>>
>>> Â  Â root at mymachine:/ 520# apt-get upgrade
>>> Â  Â Reading package lists... Done
>>> Â  Â Building dependency tree
>>> Â  Â Reading state information... Done
>>> Â  Â The following packages have been kept back:
>>> Â  Â  Â linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
>>> Â  Â 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
>>>
>>> Why won't it upgrade it?


In synaptic you need to check for that those packages aren't locked to a
specific version, you should see if this is the case by pressing
"status" in the lower left corner and then selecting "pinned" in the
left window.

If those items are listed there then select them and from the top panel
choose package, remove the checkmark from "lock version".

Cheers,
Matthias