There are always three package i can never upgrade...

[magomago]

regardless of whether i try synaptic smart upgrade or go in via apt-get terminal

it tells me of this when i try ubuntu update manager, and tells me to resolve it via synaptic or apt get

amarry@cv077078:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
firefox-gnome-support gaim gimp
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.


its ALWAYS those three pacakges...anyway i can upgrade them? (i checked my gaim its version 1.3 wheras the new one is 1.5 :()

[Lord Illidan]

Did you enable the extra repositories... check in the Ubuntu Guide...

[magomago]

Did you enable the extra repositories... check in the Ubuntu Guide...
indeed i did and its how i do everything...i'll do it again for kicks, but it never updates

[DJ_Max]

Post your /etc/apt/sources.list

And do a little reading on why Ubuntu only has Gaim 1.3.

[magomago]

Post your /etc/apt/sources.list

And do a little reading on why Ubuntu only has Gaim 1.3.
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deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.04 _Hoary Hedgehog_ - Release i386 (20050407)]/ hoary main restricted

## MY Test
## If I do not remove these...it complains about duplicates 24/7
## deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
## deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch major bug fix updates produced
## after the final release of the distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse

## Backports
deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted
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will go look for stuff about gaim ;)