Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Yuriy Padlyak wrote:
> Why aptitude dist-upgrade shows some packages to update, while apt-get 
> dist-upgrade - don't?.
>
> [...]

I believe that this is because aptitude maintains its own record of 
which packages you have installed automatically and manually. If you 
ever use a different package manager (apt-get, synaptic), this database 
gets out of sync. You can get around this using "aptitude unmarkauto" - 
see the aptitude man page. There is also some discussion in a previous 
thread (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/05/msg01734.html). 
Also, I think that aptitude installs 'recommends' as well as 'depends' 
dependencies.

--
Chris.