Re: apt-get upgrade
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Robert Cates wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> Thanks for your replies, but I believe aptitude is a GUI application and
> I forgot to point out that my machine is a server - no GUI, no KDE, no
> Gnome. I have tried 'dpkg -i locales' but that didn't do the trick either:
> dpkg: error processing locales (--install):
> cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> locales
>
> Any more suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> Robert
>
>
Aptitude is text based, it is not GUI.
You can use it as a direct replacement for apt-get.
In your case you might want to try: aptitude dist-upgrade
Joe
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