apt-get upgrade (without the 'dist-') might be more to your liking. HTH, j On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:47:18PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: [...] > What I'm comparing it to <shields up> is an RPM-based distros method > of "upgrading". I think it looks at what's installed and updates those > packages (and dependencies) at the least. Right ?? I'd like "apt-get > dist-upgrade" to do that. [...]