Ubuntu server holding back on me

[Tom H]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> 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 apt-get, apt full-upgrade
>>
>> which not only upgrades existing packages but installs any new ones
>> required.
>
> As I understand it, dist-upgrade takes me to the latest release.

Please bottom-post.

Only if you modify the apt repos to the latest release.