"Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote
> 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? : >

I get this quite often - it usually boils down to three or four key installs
of high-level packages which then pull in many of the others (kde, kdm,
kdesktop are obvious candidates). Occasionally I have to do a dozen or so
installs to tidy up all the small fry, so maybe it would be better if I got
to grips with dist-upgrade instead.

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