Ubuntu server holding back on me

[Colin Law]

On 21 September 2017 at 21:02, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> But when I try to get the indicated updates, I see:
> root at gog:~# apt-get update
> Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
> Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
> Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
> Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
> Reading package lists... Done
> root at gog:~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
>
> And indeed the kernel is at 4.4.0-62, while my non-server installs are at 4.4.0-96.  Is the holdback related to the "InRelease" status?
>
> Is there any reason I should not get an upgraded kernel, and if so, how do I do that.

You should use
apt-get dist-upgrade
or in fact the utility that supersedes aptget
apt full-upgrade

which not only upgrades existing packages but installs any new ones required.

Colin