upgrade solves other issues?

[John R. Sowden]

On 04/08/2014 05:39 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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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john at sentry10:~$ sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep binutils
[sudo] password for john:
binutils					install
john at sentry10:~$

I didn't run the next cmd because it didn't say hold

john