Ubuntu server holding back on me

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Thu Sep 21 20:29:12 UTC 2017


As I understand it, dist-upgrade takes me to the latest release.  I don't
want that.  I stay at LTS releases on purpose.  All I want really are
security updates until the next LTS rolls out.


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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