It should not actually do an upgrade in distribution, but use the '-s' switch just in case, the -s switch is for 'simulation'...won't actually make any changes, just simulate what it 'would' do. With the -s switch, you should see what packages it's going to affect, if it's a huge list then something isn't right, but if it's just what is out of sync plus the held-back packages...your probably good.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:44 PM, BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks Rob,<br>
<br>
I have run apt-get update but have read that your suggestion does a
partial upgrade and that can cause issues. Is that correct? I'll do
some more reading of the man page.<br>
<br>
Thanks again<br>
<br>
Brian<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
On 01/19/2012 07:36 PM, Rob Haag wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">I've been using the 3.0 Kernel since I upgraded to
11.10 (pretty sure thats when it came in). It's been stable, I'm
not sure what benefits I'm getting from it though...maybe a better
CPU scheduler? Probably loads of other stuff, I remember reading
some stuff in Linux Pro, it had a 'list' of changes. Here's a
detailed list <a href="http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0" target="_blank">http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.0</a>
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<div>Anyhow, as far as packages that are being held back, first
(as usual) do a 'sudo apt-get update'...then do a 'sudo apt-get
dist-upgrade' .., it will upgrade your kept packages (packages
being held back). This won't upgrade your distribution, unless
you change your sources.list to point to the new repository (not
the recommended way of upgrading distributions though), this
should just remove obsoleted packages and install new
dependencies and upgrade your held back packages...of course, as
always, read the before hitting 'Y'. Check out 'man apt-get' to
get the full scoop from the man page..
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<div>Good luck...<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:01 PM,
BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" target="_blank">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi all,<br>
<br>
I'm finding lots of "how-tos" on the web to install the
3.0 kernel. Is this advisable as i am running Ubuntu
10.10? I am getting lots of updates that I can't install
in the Update Manager and I'm wondering if it's because
of the kernel and dependencies.<br>
<br>
Here's apt-get in the terminal:<br>
<br>
"sudo apt-get upgrade<br>
Reading package lists... Done<br>
Building dependency tree <br>
Reading state information... Done<br>
The following packages have been kept back:<br>
banshee banshee-extension-soundmenu
gnome-control-center grub-common grub-pc<br>
grub2 gtk2-engines-pixbuf launchpad-integration
libboost-all-dev<br>
libgail-common libgail-dev libgail18 libgtk2.0-0
libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-dev<br>
libical0 liblaunchpad-integration1
liblaunchpad-integration1.0-cil<br>
libplymouth2 libvmime0 linux-generic
linux-headers-generic<br>
linux-image-generic mintmenu plymouth plymouth-label
plymouth-x11<br>
python-launchpad-integration python-qgis
python-qgis-common<br>
python-software-properties qgis qgis-common
qgis-plugin-grass<br>
qgis-plugin-grass-common qgis-providers
qgis-providers-common<br>
software-properties-gtk software-properties-kde tomboy
usb-creator-common<br>
usb-creator-gtk usb-creator-kde xchat xchat-common
yelp<br>
The following packages will be upgraded:<br>
libt1-5 libxml2 libxml2-dev libxml2-utils
python-libxml2<br>
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not
upgraded.<br>
Need to get 2,193kB of archives.<br>
After this operation, 8,192B of additional disk space
will be used.<br>
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? "<br>
<br>
Many thanks<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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