Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

["Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>]

Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:

> Don't use dselect for distribution upgrades. Use apt-get directly, e.g.
> 
> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

As others have pointed out already, this isn't recommended by the
release notes either.  The suggested upgrade path is to use the version
of aptitude from Sarge:

http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html

as aptitude is smarter about dependencies than apt-get.  (It also has
the nice feature of remembering which packages were installed only in
order to fulfill dependencies.)

regards,

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