upgrade solves other issues?
Colin Law
clanlaw at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 12:39:29 UTC 2014
On 8 April 2014 12:25, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> On 04/08/2014 03:55 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 8 April 2014 11:51, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> john at sentry10:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> Calculating upgrade... Done
>>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>> binutils
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>>
>>
>> How about
>> apt-cache policy binutils
>>
>> Colin
>>
> john at sentry10:~$ sudo apt-cache policy binutils
> [sudo] password for john:
> binutils:
> Installed: 2.23.2-2ubuntu1
> Candidate: 2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1
> Version table:
> 2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main i386 Packages
> *** 2.23.2-2ubuntu1 0
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I wonder whether you have accidentally manually held that package. Try running
dpkg --get-selections | grep binutils
If that shows 'hold' against binutils then
sudo apt-mark unhold binutils
and if that says that the hold has been cancelled then try dist-upgrade again.
Colin
> john at sentry10:~$
>
>
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