On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Frank McCormick wrote: > Had a strange problem this morning for the second time recently: > > > root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following package was automatically installed and is no longer > required: python-gtksourceview2 > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it. > The following packages have been kept back: > eom-common mate-panel mate-panel-common > The following packages will be upgraded: > base-passwd cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common > cups-core-drivers cups-daemon > cups-ppdc cups-server-common dnsmasq-base geoip-database libcups2 > libcupscgi1 > libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 man-db pluma pluma-common > ruby 20 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > Need to get 7,645 kB of archives. > After this operation, 4,731 kB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > Apt-get then did what it said it would upgrading everything except > mate-panel, mate-panel-commong and eom
This is the proper behavior for "upgrade." To "upgrade" the held-back files use "dist-upgrade" instead. The apt-get man explains the difference between the two, and why it is done that way. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140410085008.3e8f4...@debian7.boseck208.net