Mark Zimmerman wrote: > > Lately, I've been doing a 'apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade' every day > to check up on how far I've drifted from the current potato baseline. > There has been a gradually increasing number of packages that are > 'kept back'; currently I get:
This should answer your question: file:/usr/doc/apt/users-guide.html/ch4.html#s4.2.4 It reads: 4.2.4 The Kept Back list The following packages have been kept back compface man-db tetex-base msql libpaper svgalib1 gs snmp arena lynx xpat2 groff xscreensaver Whenever the whole system is being upgraded there is the possibility that new versions of packages cannot be installed because they require new things or conflict with already installed things. In this case the package will appear in the Kept Back list. The best way to convince packages listed there to install is with apt-get install or by using dselect to resolve their problems. Remember, when all else fails, read the documentation. I ran into this earlier tonight. So the first place I looked was in /usr/doc/apt/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg "Tower" Starkes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Webmaster, Linuxberg (http://www.linuxberg.com/) "You can twist perceptions, reality won't budge." -Neil Peart, Rush, "Show Don't Tell"
