Re: Upgrade fails

From	Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Upgrade fails
Date	2016-09-29 11:30 +0200
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Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> writes:

> Trying apt-get upgrade:
>
> 11:10:17 root@tony-fr:~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   db5.1-util phonon-backend-vlc vlc vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify
> vlc-plugin-pulse
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
>
> I have no packages (deliberately) held back., so how do I get out of
> this situation?

Run apt-get dist-upgrade, review the list of packages it is planning to
install/uninstall, and if everything looks ok, let it go ahead and do
it.

The apt-get upgrade command will not execute upgrades that require it to
install or uninstall packages.

-- 
regards,
kushal

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Upgrade fails Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-29 11:20 +0200
  Re: Upgrade fails Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2016-09-29 11:30 +0200
    Re: Upgrade fails Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-29 11:50 +0200
      Re: Upgrade fails Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-09-29 11:50 +0200
        Re: Upgrade fails Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-29 12:00 +0200
          Re: Upgrade fails Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-29 12:10 +0200
            Re: Upgrade fails Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-09-29 12:20 +0200
              Re: Upgrade fails Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-29 12:50 +0200
                Re: Upgrade fails Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-09-29 13:00 +0200
                [SOLVED] Re: Upgrade fails Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-09-29 13:30 +0200
            Re: Upgrade fails Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2016-09-29 13:50 +0200
          Re: Upgrade fails Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-09-29 12:10 +0200
          Re: Upgrade fails Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-09-29 12:10 +0200
  Re: Upgrade fails Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2016-09-29 11:30 +0200

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