Steve McIntyre writes: > mar...@server1.shellworld.net > > > >622 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 551 not upgraded. > >Need to get 222 MB of archives. > >After this operation, 48.4 MB of additional disk space will be used. > >Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > > > >Needless to say, I typed n and there's where things stand now. > > > >The number of held-back entries is about the size of the whole > >distribution so something is seriously wrong. > > What command are you using to upgrade? This looks like you're using > "apt-get upgrade" when you need "apt-get dist-upgrade" ...
After upgrading to wheezy, I ran apt-get update one last time followed by apt-get upgrade and then apt-get dist-upgrade. To complicate things, I discovered my sources.list file was missing the line deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free I added it and it did pickup a few more packages. I then did upgrade with no problem and then dist-upgrade to get the wheezy versions of anything found. It again worked without a complaint. It is after I replace all occurrances of wheezy with jessie and do the update, upgrade and dist-upgrade commands that it shows all the held-back packages. I do have the original squeeze system on a drive and my upgrade was started by copying the entire squeeze drive to this new drive. If worse comes to worse, I could do the whole thing over now that I have a sources.list file or better yet, I need to find a sources.list file that is sure to have everything it is supposed to have so this doesn't happen again. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150716175132.995ca22...@server1.shellworld.net