Need Help Upgrading Packages – Apt-get vs. Synaptic

[Member RobK88]

I need some help upgrading my old PC.

When I run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

I am told nothing needs to be upgraded and some packages were held back. see below.

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  antix-goodies elogind gir1.2-polkit-1.0 gnome-mpv gparted libelogind0 libpam-elogind
  libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 mtpaint policykit-1
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.

But when I run synaptic and click “Reload” and then “Mark all Upgrades”, synaptic wants to upgrade a lot of software.

To be removed:
     libpam-elogind-compat
     libpolkit-backend-1-0
To be installed:
     celluloid
     gifsicle
     gparted-common
     libgtkmm-3.0-1v5
     linpolkit-goobkect-elogind-1-0
     netcat
     netcat-traditional
To be upgraded
     antix-goodies
     elogind
     gir1.2-polkit-1.0
     gnome-mpv
     gparted
     libelogind0
     libpam-elogind
     libpolikit-agent-1-0
     libpolkit-gobject-1-0
     polickykit-1

why is there a difference between synaptic and apt-get?

Does anyone have a recommendation on how to proceed?
Should I go ahead with the changes proposed by Synaptic?
Or do nothing?

• This topic was modified 3 years ago by RobK88.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Use apt-get dist-upgrade

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

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[Member RobK88]

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Thanks. That worked.

I did not realize that the Synaptic Package Manager would attempt to do a dist-upgrade.
I thought it would just try to do something like a “sudo apt-get upgrade”.

Thanks again.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by RobK88.

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