apt-get holding back on me

[Myles Green]

On Thu, 2004-23-12 at 20:37 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
> > Michael Hipp wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm trying to update my Ubuntu (Debian) server. When I do ]apt-get 
> >> upgrade' I get this:
> >>
> >> The following packages have been kept back:
> >>   linux-image-2.6-386 linux-restricted-modules-2.6-386
> >>
> >> How do I get apt-get to install these updates? Tried using 
> >> '--ignore-hold'. These are "special" likely because a reboot is needed 
> >> afterwards. linux-image is a kernel update.
> >>
> > 
> > Have you checked the files in /etc/apt/ ?
> 
> Yes. I expected to find something there about exclusions or somesuch. But it's 
> all clean and simple.

I've run into this a few times now, my solution was to do:

$ sudo apt-get install package1 package2

In all instances there were other needed packages that were also
installed and everything seemed to 'just work' after that. 

HTH,
Myles
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Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> Calgary AB Canada
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