Re: apt-get questions

[Gary Lowder <gary@lowder.com>]

Richard Kimber wrote:

> apt-get dist-upgrade is persistently holding back one package (j2sdk1.3). 
> Why is this, and what, if anything, should I do?


This happens when the new package has more dependencies that you don't 
already have installed.  Just do "apt-get install <package>" and it'll 
upgrade the newer version of the package and it's new dependencies.  You 
can confirm that it's not held back anymore by doing another "apt-get 
dist-upgrade" afterwards and seeing that you don't have any packages 
held back.

Gary.