Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 10/04/14 11:50 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> > Had a strange problem this morning for the second time recently:
> >
> >
> > root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Calculating upgrade... Done
> > The following package was automatically installed and is no longer
> > required: python-gtksourceview2
> > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
> > The following packages have been kept back:
> >     eom-common mate-panel mate-panel-common
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >     base-passwd cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common
> > cups-core-drivers cups-daemon
> >     cups-ppdc cups-server-common dnsmasq-base geoip-database libcups2
> > libcupscgi1
> >     libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 man-db pluma pluma-common
> > ruby 20 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 7,645 kB of archives.
> > After this operation, 4,731 kB disk space will be freed.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> >
> > Apt-get then did what it said it would upgrading everything except
> > mate-panel, mate-panel-commong and eom
>
> This is the proper behavior for "upgrade."  To "upgrade" the
> held-back files use "dist-upgrade" instead. The apt-get man explains
> the difference between the two, and why it is done that way.
>
>
> B


   As I told another poster here, dist-upgrade wanted to remove half of
Mate.
Synaptic was the only one that offered to replace the old mate-applets 
file with the new one, Neither apt-get, nor aptitude in any of my
attempts mdentioned anything about the applets file.



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