Re: apt-get upgrade - excessive list?

["[KS]" <lists04@fastmail.fm>]

Yoav Felberbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently trying to upgrade PHP4 on a production server that  hasn't
> been exactly maintained very well. However, if I do "apt-get - u upgrade
> php4" , I get an humbungous list of stuff to update.
> 
> Doing an "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" is EVEN worse, with apt-get  claiming
> I need to "REMOVE" apache, and install "NEW" apache2,  something I can't
> really do on a production server on a whim.  Especially seeing as all I
> want to do is to upgrade PHP 4.2.1 to 4.4.0.
> 
> TIA!
> 
> Y.
> 
> Output follows.......
> # apt-get -u dist-upgrade

Try the one below and see what it says. The upgrade and dist-upgrade
commands apply to the system rather than one single package.

$ apt-get -s install php4

/KS