-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Cates wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:00:33PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> >>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:57:12AM +0100, Robert Cates wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I've recently upgraded my Woody machine to Sarge, and most every is >>>> fine, except some packages did not seem to be upgraded and now when >>>> I run 'apt-get upgrade' I get - "The following packages have been >>>> kept back: ". I knew of a way to be able to upgrade those packages >>>> anyway, but I can't seem to remember, unless something's changed or >>>> different now and I just can't upgrade them without uninstalling and >>>> re-installing. >>>> >>>> Can somebody please tell me how I can now upgrade some of these >>>> packages? A couple of the packages are 'locales' and 'ntp-refclock'. >>>> >>>> >>> First, you need to be using dist-upgrade to go from one stable release >>> to the next. Second, you *really* need to be using aptitude. >>> >>> >> I'd be help to just include the output of the aptitude dist-upgrade. >> You can also look at the sarge release notes about woody upgrades. >> >> > Thanks for your replies, but I believe aptitude is a GUI application and > I forgot to point out that my machine is a server - no GUI, no KDE, no > Gnome. I have tried 'dpkg -i locales' but that didn't do the trick either: > dpkg: error processing locales (--install): > cannot access archive: No such file or directory > Errors were encountered while processing: > locales > > Any more suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > Robert > >
Aptitude is text based, it is not GUI. You can use it as a direct replacement for apt-get. In your case you might want to try: aptitude dist-upgrade Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF7s9eiXBCVWpc5J4RAoH8AJoDTstpFE0EKA1HOIkVBzWLR9ni+QCdE0bv L2P3e8Og6/1YP4M3+mAKtNo= =ThaD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]