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Re:packages "held back"

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 31, 2006 09:00 AM
I believe using "apt-get dist-upgrade" solves the "package held back" problem. It's held back because it depends on new packages that are not installed on your system, and the "apt-get upgrade" command only updates existing packages.

Selecting the "install all upgrades" option in Synaptic does the same thing as dist-upgrade.

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