Re: cannot install all updates

[Amit Uttamchandani <amit.uttam@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:48:02 +0300
"Giorgos D. Pallas" <gpall@ccf.auth.gr> wrote:

> Rich Healey wrote:
> >
> > Will give you the info you're looking for, basically "upgrade" will do
> > minor updates, security fixes, {dist,full}-upgrade will upgrade
> > completely, potentially breaking everything.
> 
> 
> I'm using debian testing for 5 years now, and every week I run 'aptitude
> update && aptitude full-upgrade && aptitude clean'.
> The important thing is the full-upgrade (or dist-upgrade for the older
> users ;-) ), which never, BUT NEVER, broke anything on my system!
> 

I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do
but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from
aptitude gui, does the 'U' key do full-upgrade or dist-upgrade?

Thanks,
Amit