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I was installing and removing packages recently and i noticed that it said: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. as soon as i ran the command. But, when i ran sudo apt-get update it still said: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. When i ran sudo apt-get upgrade however it also said:

The following packages have been kept back:
libraspberrypi-bin libraspberrypi-dev libraspberrypi-doc libraspberrypi0
lxpanel lxpanel-data nuscratch raspberrypi-bootloader

How may i update these packages?

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  • I don't know the answer to that question or the one I'm about to recommend you ask yourself first: "What does it mean when apt-get says 'packages have been kept back'?". Someone somewhere knows, and I bet they and/or someone else have explained it already, on the internet (but again, none of them include me). unix.stackexchange.com
    – goldilocks ♦
    Commented May 15, 2016 at 16:59
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    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade will usually handle the issue of held back packages.
    – Steve Robillard
    Commented May 15, 2016 at 17:08

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Those packages were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and no longer needed.

apt-get upgrade only upgrade all your current packages to newest version.

apt-get dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages and remove redundant ones. So you should use this command unless you have specific need for those packages to be kept :)

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  • But i thought if you had packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are no longer needed apt-get autoremove removed them.
    – sir_ian
    Commented May 15, 2016 at 21:54
  • so have you ran the autoremove command yet? those packages suppose to be uninstalled after an autoremove too.
    – Aura
    Commented May 16, 2016 at 10:09

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