Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages
On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
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> Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic
> instead of aptitude.
>
> RLH
Au contraire... The docs are quite explicit about this: use *aptitude*.
http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
4.4 Upgrading packages
The recommended way to upgrade from previous Debian GNU/Linux releases
is to use the package management tool aptitude. This program makes safer
decisions about package installations than running apt-get directly.
4.4.2 Upgrading aptitude
Upgrade tests have shown that etch's version of aptitude is better at
solving the complex dependencies during an upgrade than either apt-get
or sarge's aptitude. It should therefore be upgraded first [...]
Regards,
Ralph
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