Hello Jonathan.

Try doing a ``apt full-upgrade`` instead. When packages are kept back, it
usually means that other packages needs to be uninstalled for them to install.
By default, that's a no-no on debian. The usage of ``full-upgrade`` tells the
apt tool that it's okay and expected to uninstall packages to move forward.

Be sure to review the changes though, so you do not end up with a broken system.

Cheers,
         Ludovic

On Tue, 10 Jan 2023, Jonathan Drews via Dng wrote:

>Hi Folks:
>
> New to using Devuan. I need a little advice. I got this output upon doing update and upgrade:
>
>root@leo:~# apt-get update
>Hit:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera InRelease
>Hit:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates InRelease
>Hit:3 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security InRelease
>Reading package lists... Done
>root@leo:~# apt-get upgrade
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree... Done
>Reading state information... Done
>Calculating upgrade... Done
>The following packages have been kept back:
> linux-image-amd64
>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>
>Why isn't it upgrading linux-image-amd64?
>
>I am using : $ uname -a
>Linux leo 5.10.0-19-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.149-2 (2022-10-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>This is Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (Chimaera)
>