Re: kdeartwork kdeartwork-theme-desktop kdebase kdeprint kept back

["Mihalis I. Tsoukalos" <mtsouk@freemail.gr>]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:44:55AM +0300, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 02:19:00AM +0100, Nick Boyce wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:47:09 +0300, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote:
> > 
> > >why do I get the following message:
> > >
> > >racoon:~# apt-get upgrade
> > >Reading Package Lists... Done
> > >Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > >The following packages have been kept back
> > >  kdeartwork kdeartwork-theme-desktop kdebase kdeprint
> > >0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4  not
> > >upgraded.
> > 
> > It depends what exactly you were trying to achieve.  If you were
> > simply updating your system with slightly modified versions (say
> > security updates) of packages which are already on your system, then
> > yes, you're right, they should have been updated by the above command.
> > 
> > However, if you're trying to install a major upgrade (say from one
> > release of KDE to another), then for reasons I don't fully understand
> > the standard advice is that you must run
> >    apt-get dist-upgrade
> > rather than
> >    apt-get upgrade
> > As an example, IIUC "upgrade" will never *remove* an existing package
> > from your system if it conflicts with one of the new packages to be
> > installed - however "dist-upgrade" *will* do that, and will do
> > anything else necessary to ensure the upgrade you requested does
> > actually happen.
> > 
> > What I don't understand is why anyone ever does simple "upgrade" when
> > it seems that "dist-upgrade" is cleverer and more useful.
> > 
> > If what I've just said doesn't help, then give us more information on
> > what kind of update/upgrade you're actually trying to do (and tell us
> > which Debian release you're using).
> 
> Still no luck I think.
> 
> home:~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
>   kdeartwork-theme-desktop kdebase kdeprint
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3  not
>   upgraded.
> home:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
>   Reading Package Lists... Done
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   Calculating Upgrade... Done
>   The following NEW packages will be installed:
>     efax kdeartwork-theme-icon kdewallpapers
>     3 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not
>     upgraded.
>     Need to get 9121kB of archives. After unpacking 365kB will be used.
>     Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> 
> What else can I do?
> 
> have a nice day,
> Mihalis.
> 
> -- 
>  08:42:54 up 29 days, 18:26,  2 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.03

My fault.

It worked:

home:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
home:~#

cheers,
Mihalis.

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