If you do an apt-get dist-upgrade, does it still keep a lot of packages behind or does it upgrade everything? For a long time I was only doing apt-get upgrade and found that a lot of packages didn't get upgraded until I did an apt-get dist-upgrade and that took care of it.
Thanks, Bertrand. --- Euan Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it got to "init 3", then it mounted to root > filesystem. Why is it > > going to stage 3 though? Normal boot is stage 2. > > It seems to have mounted the filesystem ok, just not > read-write. > > Mirko's workaround got me a bootable machine but I > suspect that this > will continue to cause problems. > > I notice that apt-get is holding back quite a few > packages just now. > Are others also experiencing this? Is there any way > (bar uninstalling a > lot of current packages) that I can get these to > update or are we > waiting for more packages to hit the "unstable" tree > before these can be > updated? > > Again, any help would be much appreciated, > > Euan. > > sparc:~# apt-get -u upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back: > gnome-applets gnome-control-center > gnome-panel-data gnumeric > kappfinder kate > kcalc kcoloredit kcontrol kdeaddons kdeartwork > kdeartwork-style > kdeartwork-theme-window kdebase kdebase-bin > kdebase-kio-plugins > kdelibs > kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 kdelibs4-dev kdeprint > kdesktop kdm kfind > khelpcenter > kicker klipper kmenuedit konqueror > konqueror-nsplugins konsole kpager > kpersonalizer kscreensaver ksmserver ksplash > kstars ksysguard > ksysguardd > ktip kview kwin libarts1 libarts1-dev libdbi-perl > libenchant1 libkonq4 > libldap2 libmetacity0 libxcursor-dev libxcursor1 > libxft-dev libxft2 > libxrender-dev libxrender1 ntp-simple quanta > r-base-core render-dev > umbrello > vim x-window-system-core xbase-clients > xlibmesa-gl-dev > xlibmesa-glu-dev > xlibmesa3 xlibs xlibs-dev xlibs-pic xterm > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 70 > not upgraded. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
