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putz3000
December 28th, 2008, 03:47 AM
I am running 8.04.1 server edition and when I run sudo apt-get upgrade (after first running sudo apt-get update), there are 7 "packages" kept back. I am not sure why, or if it is ok. Maybe I need to do something to my source list? Here are the results I get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-30 libisccc30 libisccfg30 linux-image-server
linux-server
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
magicman@Evo:~$

Any idea's about what is going on or if I need to be concerened?

thanks

gettinoriginal
December 28th, 2008, 04:17 AM
You did update, then upgrade, you should probably do another update.

putz3000
December 28th, 2008, 05:01 AM
does not matter how many times I do an update, this has been going on now for some time.

Is it possible that these 7 packages are somehow connected to a problem with webmen? I installed webmen and at the time had to go to debians source and everything was all right at the time, but now it errors over the source location as well. I have just been too lazy to fix it - server is not Internet facing.

Partyboi2
December 28th, 2008, 05:03 AM
Have you tried

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

putz3000
January 1st, 2009, 09:57 AM
Yes, that did the trick (apt-get dist-upgrade). What is the main differance between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade?

Partyboi2
January 1st, 2009, 10:40 AM
Yes, that did the trick (apt-get dist-upgrade). What is the main differance between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade?
Taken from apt-get manpage

upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages
currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
/etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new
versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no
circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages
not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of
currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without
changing the install status of another package will be left at
their current version. An update must be performed first so that
apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.


dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
expense of less important ones if necessary. The
/etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which
to retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for
a mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual
packages.