Re: apt-get dist-upgrade wants to wipe out everythin!
On Friday 11 March 2005 19:48, David A. Cobb wrote:
> The next thing, 'dist-upgrade' prepares for:
> "2 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 76 downgraded, 5626 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded."
> I'm glad apt at least says it is about to do something really stupid and
> am I positive that's what I want?
apt is doing what you tell it to do. Use apt-get upgrade, not dist-upgrade.
dist-upgrade is for rare occasions when you want to make big changes, such as
upgrading a major set of packages to a new version (as opposed to a new
revision), and to uninstall any old software that the new version no longer
requires, etc.
--
Lee.
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