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Re: Upgrade fails



Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> writes:

> Trying apt-get upgrade:
>
> 11:10:17 root@tony-fr:~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   db5.1-util phonon-backend-vlc vlc vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify
> vlc-plugin-pulse
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
>
> I have no packages (deliberately) held back., so how do I get out of
> this situation?

Run apt-get dist-upgrade, review the list of packages it is planning to
install/uninstall, and if everything looks ok, let it go ahead and do
it.

The apt-get upgrade command will not execute upgrades that require it to
install or uninstall packages.

-- 
regards,
kushal


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