Bug#401317: Aptitude quite happily "upgrades" aptitude from sarge->etch
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:07:38PM +0200, Jonathan Quick wrote:
> Hi Frans
>
> In testing out upgrade of a fresh sarge installation which included the
> desktop task ie. both Gnome and KDE, in desperation I found that (after
> updating sources.list to point to etch and 'apt-get update') the
> command
>
> aptitude upgrade aptitude
aptitude upgrade does not take any more command line parameters.
If you are thinking to upgrade aptitude
aptitude install aptitude
or since you need new tasksel too
aptitude install aptitude tasksel
That is a start for sure. But question still remain how best follow
this if we were to present best known method for (dist-)upgrade.
See more on Bug#401317.
Osamu
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