Re: "Held back" updates...

bp@www.zefox.net writes:

Thank you very much! I wasn't aware of the nuances you've presented.
For now /var/run/reboot-required doesn't exist. I'll start checking
it regularly.

unattended-upgrades is telling me about has raspberrypi-ui-mods too (now
that I look at my cron mail). The answer is that other packages need to
be installed and removed in order to satisfy the new version’s
dependencies:

    $ really apt-get dist-upgrade
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    Calculating upgrade... Done
    The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
      lxplug-network
    Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
      lxplug-ptbatt
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      lxplug-batt lxplug-cpu wfplug-batt
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      raspberrypi-ui-mods
    1 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 1,113 kB of archives.
    After this operation, 260 kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

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