Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
Yes that totally makes sense, I was actually reading the man page but I did not  understand what was the big difference in my case with the OpenJDK packages. I only saw that it had to install an additional and new package, maybe that made it classify more for a dist-upgrade. Because else it was

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread Patrick Weiden
Hi, as the manpage of apt-get tells: [...] 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 an

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
Hi Patrick dist-upgrade did it. Now as a general rule is it safe to use a dist-upgrade in a production environment? I suppose there is a good reason for having upgrade and dist-upgrade. Regards ML On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:39 AM, Patrick Weiden wrote: Hi, have you tried an "apt-get

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread Patrick Weiden
Hi, have you tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Some packages won't be upgraded by the "apt-get upgrade" operation. Please try the first and tell us the results. Thanks! Cheers, Patrick On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:26 AM, ML mail wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering why an "apt-get upgrade"on my Debi