Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:46, Marty wrote:
> tom arnall wrote:
> > i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did:
> >
> > kloro@debian:~$ uname -r
> > 2.6.16.4
> >
> > so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31
> > not fully installed or removed.' is where it gets interesting:
> >
> > kloro@debian:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> It was doomed from the start.  apt-get does not have the intelligence, as
> do the apt front ends, essential for all but the most trivial upgrades.  Of
> those I can only vouch for personal favorite, dselect.


judging from the menu for dselect, there does not seem to be a way to do a 
dist-upgrade, only install like with 'apt-get install'.