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Thanks Jason. I think I understand what you're saying. I've done
apt-get upgrade and those packages are held back, as they have been.
I don't do a dist-upgrade because of the possibility of breaking my
system, as I have read online, and I don't upgrade past 10.10
because I want to avoid the Unity Desktop, even with the classic
gnome option at log-in. It's so classic that I lose most of my
customization. Maybe I'm at an impasse?<br>
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Here's the dist-upgrade output:<br>
<br>
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade<br>
[sudo] password for ubuntu: <br>
Reading package lists... Done<br>
Building dependency tree <br>
Reading state information... Done<br>
Calculating upgrade... Done<br>
The following packages will be REMOVED:<br>
friendly-recovery plymouth-label plymouth-theme-kubuntu-logo<br>
plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo plymouth-theme-xubuntu-logo
plymouth-x11<br>
qgis-plugin-grass xchat<br>
The following NEW packages will be installed:<br>
apg libgtk-sharp-beans-cil liblaunchpad-integration-common
libmatecanvas<br>
libmatecomponent libmatekeyring libnotify-bin libpython2.7
libqgis1.7.3<br>
libtasn1-3-bin linux-headers-2.6.35-32
linux-headers-2.6.35-32-generic<br>
linux-image-2.6.35-32-generic mate-common mate-conf
mate-conf-common<br>
mate-corba mate-menus mate-mime-data python-corba
python-mate-desktop<br>
python-mate-menu python2.7 python2.7-minimal<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-integration1.0-cil libplymouth2 libvmime0
mintmenu<br>
plymouth python-launchpad-integration python-software-properties<br>
software-properties-gtk software-properties-kde tomboy
usb-creator-common<br>
usb-creator-gtk usb-creator-kde yelp<br>
The following packages will be upgraded:<br>
liblaunchpad-integration1 linux-generic linux-headers-generic<br>
linux-image-generic python-qgis python-qgis-common qgis
qgis-common<br>
qgis-plugin-grass-common qgis-providers qgis-providers-common
xchat-common<br>
12 upgraded, 24 newly installed, 8 to remove and 30 not upgraded.<br>
Need to get 74.3MB of archives.<br>
After this operation, 276MB of additional disk space will be used.<br>
<br>
<br>
On 01/24/2012 10:45 AM, Jason Schaefer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:44 PM, BrianO'Keefe <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com"><okeefe@cybermesa.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thanks Rob,
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
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Hi Brian
I've lost touch with the ubuntu releases but I think that your version
of 10.10 doesn't have gnome unity. If you do a dist-upgrade it will
only upgrade the 10.10 distribution and not bring in anything outside
of it. As Rob pointed out, it won't upgrade your distribution to 11.10
(or whichever) UNLESS you change your /etc/apt/sources.list or
equivalent to include a newer distribution. Perhaps the "dist" in
dist-upgrade is misleading... dist-upgrade is the appropriate way to
do a "full" upgrade either standing in your current distro or to a new
one.
If you want to be more conservative you could use "apt-get upgrade".
This is less aggressive in its updates and will not add or remove
packages to facilitate a full upgrade.
Also, "apt-get update" doesn't actually update packages, it only tells
the system the latest updates available from the /etc/apt/* repository
lists.
If you are worried, go ahead and send us the output of "apt-get dist-upgrade".
Jason
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