Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:20:55PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
> 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.
>
If you choose this from the aptitude options menu.
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