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I posted this before, but got no reply, so I'll try again.

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Hi folks,
I'm trying to keep my Debian 2.2 (potato) box up to date using the
auto-update commands:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

However, although update seems to work okay, when I run apt-get upgrade,
I get the following error message:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
   apache apache-common dnsutils libc6 libc6-dev libpng2 libssl09
locales mpack php3-pgsql proftpd
   ssh tcpdump
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.

I am running the commands as root.

Any ideas?
Raj.

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If your sources.list points to "stable", then this is an attempt to upgrade
to 3.0 (Woody).

Quote:> However, although update seems to work okay, when I run apt-get upgrade,
> I get the following error message:

> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
>    apache apache-common dnsutils libc6 libc6-dev libpng2 libssl09
> locales mpack php3-pgsql proftpd
>    ssh tcpdump
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.

If you are indeed trying to upgrade, then you should read the Debian 3.0
release notes, particularly this section:

http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading....

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/etc/apt/sources.list.  Check with the apt-get(8) and sources.list(5) man
pages.

Quote:> I'm not trying (deliberately) to upgrade to Woody, I just want to ensure
> that I've got the latest security patches et al on my box.

I believe that Debian 2.2 is "oldstable" now that 3.0 is "stable".  Updates
may stop (relatively) soon.  

Note that the more recent (but less tested) security updates are
distributed through security.debian.org.

Quote:> I don't know a huge amount about Linux (I can navigate my way about the
> shell and stuff like that, but I don't know terribly much about the
> internals) and I was landed with this box to administrate after the
> previous admin guys decided that they didn't want to do it any more.

Perhaps consult the brief Debian documentation in /usr/share/doc/debian
(from the doc-debian package).

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Hi Paul,

Quote:> If your sources.list points to "stable", then this is an attempt to upgrade
> to 3.0 (Woody).

Um, where do I find the sources.list file?

Quote:> If you are indeed trying to upgrade, then you should read the Debian 3.0
> release notes, particularly this section:

> http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading....

I'm not trying (deliberately) to upgrade to Woody, I just want to ensure
that I've got the latest security patches et al on my box.

I don't know a huge amount about Linux (I can navigate my way about the
shell and stuff like that, but I don't know terribly much about the
internals) and I was landed with this box to administrate after the
previous admin guys decided that they didn't want to do it any more.

Thanks,
Raj.

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University of Glasgow
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Hi Paul,

Quote:> I believe that Debian 2.2 is "oldstable" now that 3.0 is "stable".  Updates
> may stop (relatively) soon.  

Cheers, Paul.  When I changed references from 'stable' to 'oldstable' in
sources.list, it worked fine.  Thanks for your help.  It's a shame about
updates for Potato stopping soon, but I'm too scared to try and upgrade
to Woody on a live server :o).

Quote:> Perhaps consult the brief Debian documentation in /usr/share/doc/debian
> (from the doc-debian package).

I'll have a look at that.

Thanks,
Raj.

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