On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Daniel Underwood < daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:

Sometimes when I attempt to upgrade my system on the command-line by

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

a few upgrades are "held back".  When I then attempt to upgrade my
system using the update-manager (System > Administration > Update
Manager), the previously held-back packages are installed.  These
held-back updates are usually kernel updates, IIRC.

Why is this?  Why on earth can't APT on the command-line perform all the
upgrades that the gnome update-manager can perform?
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Daniel Underwood
North Carolina State University
Graduate Student - Operations Research
email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
phone: XXX.302.3291
web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/