Re: apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, remaining a lots package not install

2002-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:35:41PM -0700, eric lin wrote:
 progeny:/home/fsshl# apt-get upgrade
[...]
 then apt-get upgrade, but the result is unoptismistic, it remaining have 
 a lots of packages can not be install although no error

You need to read the man page for apt-get and understand the difference
between 'upgrade' and 'dist-upgrade'.

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Re: apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, remaining a lots package not install

2002-12-05 Thread nate
eric lin said:
 Dear advance linux user:

   under choice of source as test, I type apt-get update

try apt-get dist-upgrade

nate




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Re: apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, remaining a lots package not install

2002-12-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I suspect there is some missing dependency problem.  Unfortunately
apt-get isn't very good about identifying the specifics of these.  You
might try 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or use dselect.

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:35:41PM -0700, eric lin wrote:
 Dear advance linux user:
 
  under choice of source as test, I type apt-get update
 
 progeny:/home/fsshl# apt-get update
 Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
 Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release
 Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages
 Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release
 Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages
 Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release
 Reading Package Lists... Done
 Building Dependency Tree... Done
 
 
 progeny:/home/fsshl# apt-get upgrade
 Reading Package Lists... Done
 Building Dependency Tree... Done
 The following packages have been kept back
  abiword apache apache-common apmd apt ash autoinstall balsa base-config
  bzip2 communicator console-data console-tools console-tools-libs cvs
  debhelper debian-policy dh-make dia discover dnsutils dpkg elm-me+ eog 
 eperl
  eterm fileutils freetype2 gabber gedit gftp glade-gnome glimmer gmc
  gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-help gnome-panel
  gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-utils gnomeicu gnucash gnumeric gnupg
  gnus groff gs gsfonts imagemagick libaudiofile-dev libbz2 libcapplet-dev
  libcapplet0 libdps-dev libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dev libmagick5 libnspr4
  libpam-modules libpanel-applet-dev libpanel-applet0 librep9 libwww-perl
  lprng mc-common mozilla netpbm netscape ntp openssl parted perl-5.005-doc
  psgml python-dev python-doc python-gdk-imlib python-glade python-gnome
  python-gtk python-numeric rep rep-gtk rep-gtk-gnome samba samba-common
  sawfish-gnome shellutils slrn smbclient sox squid ssh swig sysklogd
  tetex-bin textutils util-linux vflib2 vim-gtk vm w3-el-e20 wget 
 xchat-gnome
  xemacs21 xemacs21-bin xemacs21-mule xemacs21-support xemacs21-supportel
  xlibmesa-dev xlibosmesa-dev xpdf xscreensaver xserver-8514 xserver-agx
  xserver-common xserver-common-v3 xserver-mach32 xserver-mach8 
 xserver-p9000
  xserver-s3 xserver-svga xserver-xfree86
 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 124 not upgraded.
 progeny:/home/fsshl#
 
 then apt-get upgrade, but the result is unoptismistic, it remaining have 
 a lots of packages can not be install although no error
 
 like to see any tech hints or opinion
 
 highly appreciate your time and effort and help
 sincere Eric


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