Hello All,
I have a question regarding the use of apt-get upgrade or apt-get
dist-upgrade to keep my system current. When I issue apt-get upgrade, I get a
message that 90 packages were help back, and it fetches nothing.
If I then dpkg -l (list) any of the held packages, then apt-get install
that package (it will install if explicitly told to) then dpkg -l that package
again, I can see that it has been upgraded to a higher version.
Why is apt-get holding these packages, when newer versions exist?
When I issued apt-get install package-name, it told me that held package
package-name versionxx.x is being replaced with package-namexx.y.
Is this behaviour a consequence of also using apt with deselect? Is
the deselect selection criteria overriding the apt-get dist-upgrade function?
My sources.list file reads:
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian hamm main contrib non-free
I don't want to have to explicity tell deselect to upgrade every
package - that's what I thought apt-get was best at.
Please help.
Thanks.
Russ
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