upgrade solves other issues?

[John R. Sowden]

On 04/08/2014 07:39 AM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> 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
>
>
since there was no hold, I thought it might do no harm to run the next cmd:
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.
john at sentry10:~$