aptitude update output
 

I ran aptitude and it had the following output:
Current status: 5 updates [+5], 12997 new [+8].

I applied the updates using aptitude safe-upgrade and it installed the 5 updates. What about the +8 12997 updates?

Hi,

it's been some years since I've used aptitude (apt-get is more to my liking and is the recommended on my distro), so I don't remember exactly how to interpret that output. However I can think of a couple of reasons:

- You have some packages on hold. To check you can run:
- You need to do a "aptitude full-upgrade" (new packages to install)

Cheers,

Evo2.