🤩 New Cool Developer Tools for you. Explore →
FREE JavaScript Video Series Start Learning →
FLAT 75% OFF All Interactive courses at flat ₹250 / $3.25 only. HURRRRRY!! Explore now
  Signup/Sign In
Tests
MCQs to test your knowledge.
Forum
Engage with the community.
Compilers
Compilers to execute code in browser.
← Back to Questions
Ask Question
Not satisfied by the Answer? Still looking for a better solution?
Ask Question

“The following packages have been kept back:” Why and how do I solve it?

I just added a PPA repository for the development version of the GIMP, but I get this error:
$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

...

The following packages have been kept back:

  gimp gimp-data libgegl-0.0-0 libgimp2.0


Why and how can I solve it so that I can use the latest version instead of the one I have now?
package-management apt
by

2 Answers

akshay1995
Whenever you receive from the command apt-get upgrade the message


The following packages have been kept back:

then to upgrade one or all of the kept-back packages, without doing a distribution upgrade (this is what dist-upgrade does, if I remember correctly) is to issue the command:


apt-get install <list of packages kept back>

this will resolve the kept-back issues and will ask to install additional packages, etc. as was explained by other answers.
sandhya6gczb
Use this code


sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade

This allows new packages to be installed. It will let you know what packages would be installed and prompt you before actually doing the install.

Login / Signup to Answer the Question.

LoginSignup