On Thu, 08 May 2008 13:43:38 +0100, Magnate wrote:
> "Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com>
>> On Tue, 06 May 2008 13:30:25 +0100, Magnate wrote:
>>> "Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message

>>>> apt-get dist-upgrade
>>>
>>> That's not necessary.
>>
>> That is one of the steps directed by the update tool and it sometimes
>> works.
>
> Indeed. I don't disagree with that at all, I'm just pointing out that it's
> not necessary. "dist-upgrade" is a whole lot more than plain old "upgrade",
> and you don't need to do it just because "upgrade" holds back a few
> packages. You can use apt-get install for those packages instead.

Two days ago I had about 30 packages held back. Should I have run
apt-get install for each of them? : >