Re: why some packages are kept back?

[M-L <rose_snug@bigpond.com>]

On Monday 18 December 2006 17:07, Yuwen Dai sent this for all our perusal:
>---> Dear all,
>--->
>---> I'm using Debian Sarge. When I ran apt-gete upgrade, this message
> shows: --->
>--->   ~# apt-get upgrade
>--->   Reading Package Lists... Done
>--->   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>--->   The following packages have been kept back:
>--->     ffmpeg libmjpegtools0 mjpegtools mplayer-586 thunderbird
>--->   0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
>--->
>--->
>---> Why?  What should I do?
>--->

# apt-get dselect-upgrade

Should do it I think?
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