Re: how to do a clean upgrade without losing packages?

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>]

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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:51:53PM +0100, abo wrote:
> I want to upgrade from stable to unstable.
> I changend my sources.list and apt.conf and run a 'apt-get update'.
>  
> with 'apt-get -u dist-upgrade' I would lose these packages:
>  
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   console-tools-libs igerman kdebase kdebase-libs kdelibs3 kdelibs3-bin
> konsole
>   libdigest-md5-perl libfam0 libkonq3 liblcms libmemoize-perl
> libmime-base64-perl
>   libvorbis0 libweakref-perl libxml-twig-perl libxmltv-perl mp3blaster
> mythtv
>   mythtv-backend mythtv-frontend wgerman xmltv-util
> 
> I never mixed up versions. It's pure woody.

Try using aptitude, it allows you to figure out what's breaking.

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