apt-get dist-upgrade

nosbod · 05-26-2006, 09:37 AM

Hi,

to upgrade from hoary ubuntu to breezy i've replaced occurences of hoary with breezy in the sources.list and then run
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

169 packages were held back in the dist-upgrade. I have tried to run apt-get install on each of them but each one has dependancy issues.
On rebooting it still reckons it's hoary. I guess it isn't fully breezy if 169 packages were held back?
Does this mean the dist is not not
upgraded?
Ho can I resolve the 169 held back packages?

cheers

pljvaldez · 05-26-2006, 09:40 AM

You can try using forcing the install and/or try using aptitude instead.

sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade or sudo aptitude -f dist-upgrade, if aptitude isn't installed, just sudo apt-get install aptitude.

I seem to recall someone mentioning that dist-upgrading Ubuntu isn't always seemless....

nosbod · 05-26-2006, 10:12 AM

thanks, still 161 being kept back, annoyingly

nosbod · 05-26-2006, 11:18 AM

i guess a cd upgrade with the iso is the only alternative?
problem is there is no cdrom on this laptop

pljvaldez · 05-26-2006, 11:35 AM

Can you do a dpkg --get-selections |grep ubuntu-desktop

I read somewhere that the upgrade will go smoother if you apt-get install ubuntu-desktop before upgrading.