Re: Packages kept back on woody

[Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@hmc.edu>]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Laurent de Segur wrote:

> That was my point which I hadn't make clear in the previous message:
> Doing an apt-get install of the three individual packages goes without
> any problems. Only when I did the apt-get upgrade, these packages
> would hold back.

You want to 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.  From the apt-get man page:

 upgrade
     upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages
 currently installed...  under no circumstances are currently installed
 packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and
 installed.

 dist-upgrade
     dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
 also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
 of packages...

Personally, I highly recommend using dselect or a similar tool.  It allows
you to see which dependencies are affecting your upgrade, and to control
how conflicts are resolved.