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Re: Woody: "packages kept back"



Alec <alec1976nyc@yahoo.com> writes:

> What does it mean "the following packages have been kept back"?
> 
> When I do apt-get upgrade, I get:
> 
> The following packages have been kept back
>   libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dev 
> 
> What's the meaning of this? They could not be upgraded for some reason?
> 


The reason is that apt-get upgrade (as opposed to apt-get dist-upgrade)
won't install extra packages and the newer versions of libglib depend on
new packages that you don't currently have installed.

To fix this problem, run apt-get install libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dev and
it should install the extra packages that you're missing.



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