upgrade from Feisty: 439 packages are not upgraded

[clauswilson]

I did a manually upgrade as told in many places here on the forums and ended up where I am now:
The computer doesn't reach the internet and doesn't start X11.
When I do apt-get upgrade I get the message that 439 packages are not upgraded - I miss the reason here. How can I find it?
The reason why I have no X11 is because there is a version mismatch on my i810 driver.
I don't know why I have no internet which is perhaps most annoying. But it seems that all needed packages were downloaded.
So please help me on diagnosting why the packages are not upgraded!

[kubicle]

Re: upgrade from Feisty: 439 packages are not upgraded

Did you also do a 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' ?

(apt-get upgrade won't upgrade packages that would need to install new packages or uninstall packages...similar to 'Safe Upgrade' in package managers)

[clauswilson]

Re: upgrade from Feisty: 439 packages are not upgraded

Hurrah! This did the trick for me. I wished I had known a day ago. I now have a working system. I had to restart the upgrade process a couple of times. But it worked and that's important.