Ubuntu server holding back on me

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Fri Sep 22 02:08:34 UTC 2017


At Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:29:12 -0700 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> 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.

You are confused. dist-upgrade keeps you at the current LTS (eg if you are at
14.04, you stay there [it will upgrade from 14.04.n to 14.04.n+1, but that is
still same LTS release]). dist-upgrade adds in new installs. One *never*
upgrades the kernel, one *always* "installs" a new kernel (and then you use
apt-get autoremove to remove older kernels). There is a *different* command to
jump to the next LTS (eg from 14.04 to 16.04, or eventually to 18.04 when it 
is out, etc.).

RedHat's 'yum upgrade' is so much less confusing than Debian's apt-get/apt... 
Sigh... 


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> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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?
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> > > Is there any reason I should not get an upgraded kernel, and if so, how
> > do I do that.
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> > 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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