Re: packages being kept back during upgrade
On Sunday, February 23, 2003 10:10 am, Joris Huizer wrote:
...
> I've upgraded my (stable) debian machine some days ago
> - and again to be sure - but it looks like some
> packages are allways 'kept back'. This is the exact
> output I just got:
>
> --------------
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> gconf2 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common
> libgail-common libgail17
> libgconf2-4 libgnome2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0
> libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0
> libgnomevfs2-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common
> libgtkhtml2-0
> libpanel-applet2-0 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
> libwnck4
> openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-debian-files
> openoffice.org-l10n-en
> xlibmesa-dev yelp
> 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove
> and 23 not upgraded.
> Need to get 643kB of archives. After unpacking 81.9kB
> will be used.
>
> --------------
>
> What does it mean - and, should I do something to
> solve it ?
>
> Thanks for any input,
>
> Joris Huizer
I assume you did an
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
to get this result.
If so, it probably means that the packages that were kept back conflict with
some other package on your system that would need to be removed to upgrade
these. To see which one, do
apt-get -s dist-upgrade
the dist-upgrade will remove the necessary packages to satisfy the conflicts.
the -s option makes apt-get pretend to do this, so you can see what package(s)
will be removed. If you are ok without the packages it wants to remove, go
ahead and do
apt-get dist-upgrade.
Josh Metzler
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