On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 09:41, Simon Wong wrote: > Becoming impatient with waiting for new desktop stuff to move down from > unstable to testing I thought I'd try and upgrade. The main problem is > that sometimes libc6 gets stuck in unstable for quite some time but new > apps get built with that and are held back. > ...snip... > When I did an "apt-get -u upgrade" I get a HUGE list of things NOT > upgraded including libc6! > > 175 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 609 not > upgraded. > > Any clues why this is so?
The upgrade command will not install new packages, it is very likely that the packages have new libraries therefore the impass. You might want to update everything in one hit: apt-get dist-upgrade which will add new required packages for already installed packages. You might be specific and upgrade in one major component, apt-get install gnome. This should go right through everything to make sure it is reasonably current. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
