[plug] Debian upt-get upgrade

[Cameron Patrick]

Greg wrote:

| "The following packages have been kept back"
[...]
| I have had a look around but i have not been able to find a good reason
| for it. If I just manaually add the packages to an install it goes through
| fine.

That's because "apt-get upgrade" won't install new packages or remove
obsolete ones to do an upgrade - it errs on the side of caution and
not breaking things.  (Of course, if you're upgrading to sid, you can
still end up with a broken system!)  What you want is "apt-get dist-upgrade"
which will try harder to upgrade everything, even if that involves
changing the set of packages installed on the system.  One word of
caution - if it wants to remove packages, make sure there's nothing
too important there.

Cameron.