Bug#533265: release-notes: Initial aptitude upgrade unclear
Package: release-notes
Version: lenny
Severity: normal
Hello,
4.5.4. Upgrade apt and/or aptitude first
It is not clear from the text of this section that
if you have aptitude installed you should do the:
# aptitude install aptitude
and not the:
# apt-get install apt
I've done a few upgrades and done the apt-get install apt
rather than the aptitude install aptitude and the result
is that aptitude is uninstalled. After installing
aptitude then the apt-utils package remains uninstalled
and you get warnings from aptitude until after you
install it.
At least this is my experience.
I could be wrong about what I should be doing but
I just did another system and this time did (only)
the "aptitude install aptitude" and the upgrade
worked just fine from that point. So, I believe the
text should be much more clear about which command
should be run.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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