Feb
20
Debian – packages being kept back
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To upgrade you Debian installation usually you use:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
This should upgrade all installed packages. But sometimes there is a message that some packages are kept back. This means that dependencies have changed on one of the packages you have installed so that a newer package must be installed to upgrade.
To fix this you must execute:
apt-get dist-upgrade
This will do the trick.