Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:58:12 +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote:

> On 2 of my machines I have mysql-common installed
> 
> # aptitude show mysql-common
> Package: mysql-common
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 5.1.49-3
> Priority: optional
> Section: database
> [....]
> 
> However, now apt-get wants to install an update but aptitude will not.

(...)

Did you first update the packages database?

apt-get update
aptitude update

Then, I would try to make them more verbose:

apt-get -V upgrade
aptitude -vvv upgrade

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón