Re: Updating problem with my woody.

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Franki (<franki@htmlfixit.com>) wrote:

> Last night I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on a remote server
> and got this in reply.
> 
> The following packages have been kept back
>   apache apache-common apt apt-utils base-config base-passwd bash bc
> bin86 bind bind9-host binutils bison bitchx bsdmainutils bsdutils
> bzip2 chkrootkit console-common console-tools cpio cpp
>    cpp-2.95 cron curl dc debconf debconf-utils debhelper debianutils
> [...]
> mozilla mozilla-browser mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm

Mozilla on your web server?

> [...]
> So after upgrading the ones that would upgrade, I tried manually doing
> apache.
> 
> apt-get install apache
> And it returned this:
> 
> positive:/etc/apt# apt-get install apache
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>    apache-common apache2-utils binutils coreutils debconf debconf-i18n
> 
> Am I missing something here?

You are obviously missing that more than two weeks ago Sarge was
released as the new stable version of Debian. Take a look at the Sarge
release notes to see how to upgrade from Woody to Sarge.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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