Learning apt-get/ubuntu

Tried to run

apt-get upgrade

and was told

The following packages have been kept back:

So what to do there? Google, of course. Turns out, “If the dependencies have changed on one of the packages you have installed so that a new package must be installed to perform the upgrade then that will be listed as ‘kept-back’.” [1] To fix that, we have to run

apt-get dist-upgrade

That did the trick.

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