upgrade solves other issues?

[John R. Sowden]

On 04/08/2014 08:08 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
dose this mean that it is fixed?

john at sentry10:~$ sudo apt-get install binutils
[sudo] password for john:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
   gir1.2-gda-5.0 libboost-python1.53.0 libepc-1.0-3 libepc-common 
libgda-5.0-4
   libgda-5.0-common libgda-5.0-postgres libgdamm-5.0-13 libgoocanvas-2.0-9
   libgoocanvas-2.0-9-common libgoocanvasmm-2.0-6 libgtksourceviewmm-3.0-0
   libxml++2.6-2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
   binutils-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   fp-compiler-2.6.0 fpc-2.6.0
The following packages will be upgraded:
   binutils
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,646 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,509 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main binutils i386 
2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1 [3,646 kB]
Fetched 3,646 kB in 3s (1,104 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 831367 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fpc-2.6.0 ...
Removing fp-compiler-2.6.0 ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/fpc-2.6.2 to provide /usr/bin/pc 
(pc) in auto mode
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 removed doc-base file...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
(Reading database ... 831195 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace binutils 2.23.2-2ubuntu1 (using 
.../binutils_2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement binutils ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up binutils (2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
john at sentry10:~$