Upgrades held back for weeks.

[spongypants23]

Hi guys.

On my 8.04 server installation, I've been getting this message from apt-get upgrade for a few weeks:


The following packages have been kept back:
bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-30 libdns35 libisc35 libisccfg30 liblwres30
linux-image-server linux-server
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

I thought this would be fixed with the 8.04.4 release yesterday, but alas, it was not so.

It's bugging me a bit that there are packages that need to be upgraded, but it's not doing it.

Any help?

[zvacet]

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[ratcheer]

Or, full-upgrade

Tim

[tgalati4]

I get that as well. It must be a package that was installed that was statically built with those libraries. I'm not sure what the package is. I haven't spent the time to track it down yet.

[spongypants23]

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This seems to have done it.


Apparently it wasn't installing the newer kernel package with just "upgrade".

Thanks!

[snowpine]

That is the correct and normal behavior of "apt-get upgrade" vs. "apt-get dist-upgrade".