apt is pretty smart about automatically resolving dependencies,
but there are some situations that simply cannot be handled
automatically.

Here's what I usually do:

     apt-get update
     apt-get dist-upgrade

And then for cases like yours, where packages have been kept
back, I add them a few at a time, to determine the source of
apt's confusion.  I your case, I would do:

     apt-get install ae cpp cvs distributed-net

if apt complains about that combination, I would fall back,
one package at a time, until apt is successful:

     apt-get install ae cpp cvs

     <apt complaint>

     apt-get install ae cpp

     <apt complaint>

     apt-get install ae

     <well, this SHOULD always work, unless you've been
      manually forcing thinks in dpkg!>


Repeat until everything is up to date.


HTH,

D


* On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:57:25PM -0700, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> What does this mean:
> 
> [rutledge@electron][11:54:06pm] apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
>   ae cpp cvs distributed-net g++ gcc gs jdk1.1 jdk1.1-dev kbd lesstifg libc6
>   libc6-dev libforms-dev locales lynx nedit netstd nfs-server postgresql
>   slang1 sysvinit tin tya urlview util-linux vncserver whiptail xmysqladmin
>   xntp3 
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
> 
> Now that 2.2 is released, and I have my /etc/apt/sources.list pointing
> only to potato, this shouldn't be happening anymore should it?
> 
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