upgrade solves other issues?

[Colin Law]

On 8 April 2014 15:56, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> 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

OK, it is not that then.  How about
sudo apt-get install binutils

Colin