Mario Vukelic wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then
> every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me:
>
> "host:/home/mario# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> task-helix-gnome
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded."
>
> What does "kept back" mean /exactly/? Can I "dpkg --purge
> task-helix-gnome" safely? My understanding is that it isn't needed after
> it has done it's duty of selecting all gnome packages that depend on it.
> Am I right?
>
Not necessarily. 'apt-get upgrade' won't remove or add any extra packages where
'apt-get dist-upgrade' will. That one would be safe, but for others trying an
apt-get install task-helix-gnome (or whatever the package) would probably show
you that there were some extra packages to be installed as well...
upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of
all packages currently installed on the system from
the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list.
Packages currently installed with new versions
available are retrieved and upgraded; under no
circumstances are currently installed packages
removed, or packages not already installed
retrieved and installed. New versions of currently
installed packages that cannot be upgraded without
changing the install status of another package will
be left at their current version. An update must be
performed first so that apt-get knows that new
versions of packages are available.
Straight from man apt-get :-).
jt
P.S. I just did a reiser-debian install (my first "real" debian install). I
hand apt'ed everything I thought I needed. But there are several packages I was
obviously oblivious to, that I would like back :-). A good example would be
that in "man apt-get" when I do a search with "/" the results aren't
highlighted anymore. Am I missing a package or just a config? Any help
appreciated.
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Debian GNU/Linux [Woody]
2.4.0-test9-ReiserFS
You mean there's a stable tree?
