Hardy not updating 2 packages. Why?

[quixote]

Update manager says console-setup and acpi-support can be updated, but they don't update. (Which also means I have a constant (by now) annoying orange update icon in Notification Area.)

I've tried the string of commands to fix it:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update but it won't do it from the command line either.

Granted, it's a very minor version increment, and it's no big deal, but I'm curious why apt / update manager is skipping over those files like this.

Anybody out there know?

[taurus]

Have you tried the


sudo apt-get upgrade

[Pumalite]

Try

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[quixote]

No, I haven't tried that because I thought it would upgrade my system to Intrepid. Since my 2005 computer suffers what looks like a kernel panic whenever I try to boot an Intrepid LiveCD, I'm phobic about touching anything that might take me down that path. (I've tried about three or four separate downloads and about five different CDs. The drive otherwise works.)

I assume sudo apt-get dist-upgrade really would (try to) move me to Intrepid.

But can I try sudo apt-get upgrade with impunity?

Thanks for your help!

[Partyboi2]

No, I haven't tried that because I thought it would upgrade my system to Intrepid. Since my 2005 computer suffers what looks like a kernel panic whenever I try to boot an Intrepid LiveCD, I'm phobic about touching anything that might take me down that path. (I've tried about three or four separate downloads and about five different CDs. The drive otherwise works.)

I assume sudo apt-get dist-upgrade really would (try to) move me to Intrepid.

But can I try sudo apt-get upgrade with impunity?

Thanks for your help!
This is what the man page says about dist-upgrade

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.
As you can see it retrieves the packages from the repos listed in /etc/apt/sources.list, because you are not changing you sources.list it is only going to retrieve everything from your current repos which I am guessing is Hardy.

For upgrade

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.
Upgrade does the same as Update Manager except that you are doing it from the command line instead of using the gui.

[quixote]

It looks like
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --the one I was so afraid of :D -- was what I needed. That finally did it.

Thanks a million, folks! The ubuntu community is truly a thing of beauty!