Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/10/07 08:23, Rick Pasotto wrote:Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather than do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages.It will save you time by running "# apt-get -d -y upgrade" while you go eat breakfast.
...and lunch and dinner and have a good night's sleep and... Hugo Once all the packages are downloaded, run "#apt-get
upgrade" interactively.Right now it seems that for every package I try to upgrade, apt-get wants to REMOVE gcc yet upgrading all the packages at once does not. I don't understand. Why should upgrading python, for example, result in apt-get wanting to remove gcc?>How can I find the package(s) that, once upgraded, will allow the upgrading of the others *without* trying to remove gcc? None of the files that gcc depends on are in the upgrade list.