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Re: apt-get upgrade



On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:00:33PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:57:12AM +0100, Robert Cates wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've recently upgraded my Woody machine to Sarge, and most every is 
> > fine, except some packages did not seem to be upgraded and now when I 
> > run 'apt-get upgrade' I get - "The following packages have been kept 
> > back: ".  I knew of a way to be able to upgrade those packages anyway, 
> > but I can't seem to remember, unless something's changed or different 
> > now and I just can't upgrade them without uninstalling and re-installing.
> > 
> > Can somebody please tell me how I can now upgrade some of these 
> > packages?  A couple of the packages are 'locales' and 'ntp-refclock'.
> > 
> First, you need to be using dist-upgrade to go from one stable release
> to the next.  Second, you *really* need to be using aptitude.
> 
I'd be help to just include the output of the aptitude dist-upgrade.
You can also look at the sarge release notes about woody upgrades.
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