Safely Upgrading Packages
I've been running Debian on the net for a while. I thought it's time to look
at keeping packages up to date. But when I run apt-get update:
# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
apache apache-common autoconf debconf debianutils e2fsprogs file fileutils
libgd2-noxpm mailman mysql-client
mysql-server php4 php4-mysql php4-pear shellutils textutils
40 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.0MB of archives. After unpacking 2192kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Why are packages being "kept back". These are precisely the packages I want
to update.
If I try one package:
# apt-get install apache
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
apache-common file libdb4.1 libmagic1 libtool
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdb4.1 libmagic1
4 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 53 not upgraded.
Need to get 2268kB of archives. After unpacking 1954kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Why does it all of the sudden want to install libmagic1 when I don't have
that currently installed at all?
Is there a "apt-get update packages just enough so I don't get hacked"
command? :-)
Mike
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Greedo shoots first? Not in my Star Wars.
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