Package kept back?

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:23:50 +0000, bob prohaska wrote: [ ... ]

AFAIK an upgrade is held back when it requires 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.

apt-get upgrade has an option "--with-new-pkgs" to help with some of this.

Mel.

Ok, thanks. I'm still undecided whether it's worth upgrading the input devices. They're only a keyboard and mouse, which seem to work fine as they are. Is there a way to pull up a description?

bob

if packages are kept back, usually you solve the situation with a apt-get d ist-upgrade.

Bye Jack

First: sudo apt-get update

Info: apt-cache show xserver-xorg-input-all apt-cache showpkg xserver-xorg-input-all

See dependencies: apt-cache depends xserver-xorg-input-all apt-cache rdepends xserver-xorg-input-all

Check any broken dependencies: sudo apt-get check

Test fix: sudo apt-get -fsv install

Fix: sudo apt-get -fy install

Double-double-check: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y --with-new-pkgs update sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade sudo apt-get -y --purge autoremove sudo apt-get clean

Oops! Upgrade, not update, sorry. sudo apt-get -y --with-new-pkgs upgrade

Well I got the same issue(?) myself today and that or dist-upgrade didn't help. Difference is that it's not reported for either, but it's still "held back" at the next upgrade without options.

Just repeated the apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrade cycle and the "held back" message has gone away. Evidently the best cure is patience....

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska