I ran apt upgrade
the other day, and got this:
The following packages have been kept back:
appstream
According to a related question somewhere on this site, appstream is safe to even remove.
How do I know if upgrading it is safe, and what will the upgrade actually change in my system? I'm assuming apt has kept it back for a reason, so I wanted to play safe before I run dist-upgrade
.
Here's what changelog
has to say:
appstream (0.10.6-1~ubuntu16.04.1) xenial-backports; urgency=medium
* Backport to 16.04, with one change:
- Lower the required Qt version to 5.4
-- Iain Lane <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Feb 2017 12:02:22 +0000
I'm assuming this won't brake anything?
apt-get -s dist-upgrade
(even with sudo
), as proposed by @muru, yielded nothing new, except the same old message that appstream
has been kept back.
Here's the output of apt-get -s install appstream
:
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gnome-software-common libgtkspell3-3-0 libsnapd-glib1 snapd-login-service
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
gnome-software ubuntu-software
The following packages will be upgraded:
appstream
apt-get -s dist-upgrade
and see what it will do when upgrading. Probably an added dependency or something.sudo
apt-get dist-upgrade
?apt install appstream
, but I wanted to check here if it's safe. Is there an option to runinstall
in a sort of "read-only" mode, to see what'll happen?-s
, iirc. Not sure what option is for apt. Probably the same.