On Sunday, 11.09.2005 at 20:11 +0200, oneman wrote:
> >Not sure what the difference is between "apt-get upgrade" and "apt-get
> >dist-upgrade"
> Try man apt-get. In short: dist-upgrade is better at resolving
> dependency conflicts. BTW, Aptitude doesn't (need to) have two ways
> of upgrading, it's upgrade function 'fits all'.
aot-get upgrade:
Will install newer versions of packages that are already installed.
Will NOT install anything not already installed, will NOT remove
anything already installed.
apt-get dist-upgrade
Will also install newer versions of packages that are already
installed, but will also install or remove other packages as
necessary to ensure that dependencies can be met.
For example, let's say you foo-1.4 installed. foo-1.5 is available, as
is foo-2.0, but foo-2.0 has a new dependency (bar-1.0) which you don't currently
have installed.
apt-get upgrade: will install foo-1.5
apt-get dist-upgrade: will install bar-1.0 and foo-2.0
Dave.
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