hi,
try out apt-get -s upgrade
regrads
harsha
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:19:49PM +0000, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I do apt-get upgrade I get the following :
>
> debian:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> dnsutils kdebase-crypto kdelibs3-crypto pavuk python-pygresql sylpheed
> task-dns-server
> 30 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
> Need to get 19.6MB of archives. After unpacking 2098kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> If I say y here I get the following :
>
> Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main elvis-tiny 1.4-11 [39.1kB]
>
> Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main gftp 2.0.6a-3.1
> [313kB]
> Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main make 3.79.1-1.potato.1 [388kB]
>
> 0% [3 make 26881/388kB 6%] [2 gftp 14148/313kB 4%]
> 1114B/s 4h51m47s
>
> Here I pressed ctrl-c since I don't want to download 19MB stuff on dialup.
>
> My question is. First when I do apt-get upgarde I don't get any package
> list which is going to be upgraded, below after saying 'y' it starts gftp,
> make etc. Why ?
>
> Can I get only the list of packages which are going to be upgarded and then
> I can selectively to apt-get install <packagename> ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sorry for this long mail.
>
> Warm Regards
>
>
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