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Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages



On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 03:32:44PM +0100 or thereabouts, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> All right, I did "aptitude keep-all" and now it looks like everything is 
> OK. But note that I have also automatic daily "apt-get update". I should 
> have tried first "aptitude dist-upgrade" before keep-all.

Actually, the common wisdom I've always heard is NOT to use apt-get if
one is using aptitude from the CLI. It's my understanding in such a
situation one should use 'aptitude update' automatically, not 'apt-get
update'.

Perhaps that's why you had these problems in the first place ?

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