Re: kdeartwork kdeartwork-theme-desktop kdebase kdeprint kept back

• Previous message: Lou Losee: "Re: remote backup from Windows PCs"
• Maybe in reply to: Mihalis I. Tsoukalos: "kdeartwork kdeartwork-theme-desktop kdebase kdeprint kept back"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:11:21 +0300
To: debian user list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:44:55AM +0300, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 02:19:00AM +0100, Nick Boyce wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:47:09 +0300, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote:
> >
> > >why do I get the following message:
> > >
> > >racoon:~# apt-get upgrade
> > >Reading Package Lists... Done
> > >Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > >The following packages have been kept back
> > > kdeartwork kdeartwork-theme-desktop kdebase kdeprint
> > >0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not
> > >upgraded.
> >
> > It depends what exactly you were trying to achieve. If you were
> > simply updating your system with slightly modified versions (say
> > security updates) of packages which are already on your system, then
> > yes, you're right, they should have been updated by the above command.
> >
> > However, if you're trying to install a major upgrade (say from one
> > release of KDE to another), then for reasons I don't fully understand
> > the standard advice is that you must run
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
> > rather than
> > apt-get upgrade
> > As an example, IIUC "upgrade" will never *remove* an existing package
> > from your system if it conflicts with one of the new packages to be
> > installed - however "dist-upgrade" *will* do that, and will do
> > anything else necessary to ensure the upgrade you requested does
> > actually happen.
> >
> > What I don't understand is why anyone ever does simple "upgrade" when
> > it seems that "dist-upgrade" is cleverer and more useful.
> >
> > If what I've just said doesn't help, then give us more information on
> > what kind of update/upgrade you're actually trying to do (and tell us
> > which Debian release you're using).
>
> Still no luck I think.
>
> home:~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> kdeartwork-theme-desktop kdebase kdeprint
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not
> upgraded.
> home:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> efax kdeartwork-theme-icon kdewallpapers
> 3 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 9121kB of archives. After unpacking 365kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
>
> What else can I do?
>
> have a nice day,
> Mihalis.
>
> --
> 08:42:54 up 29 days, 18:26, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.03

My fault.

It worked:

home:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
home:~#

cheers,
Mihalis.

-- 
 09:10:24 up 29 days, 18:53,  2 users,  load average: 0.12, 0.04, 0.01
-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org

• Previous message: Lou Losee: "Re: remote backup from Windows PCs"
• Maybe in reply to: Mihalis I. Tsoukalos: "kdeartwork kdeartwork-theme-desktop kdebase kdeprint kept back"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]