On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:50:16 -0400
mike <mail4mike2008-debian@yahoo.com> wrote:
today when my update manger ran (on my lenny system) it said it
couldn't update normally, I had to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get
the openoffice and a few other applications installed.
My question is, What makes those different? Why not just a normal
upgrade? thanks
-mike
I don't use Lenny, but I imagine it's due to new dependencies that an
upgraded package needed. apt-get upgrade will only upgrade the packages
that are currently on your installation, not anything new. If a package
requires a new package to satisfy a dependency, then you need to use
apt-get dist-upgrade instead of the usual upgrade, because that will
add new packages if needed.
Graham